CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9390, 9 March 1909, Page 2

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

THE SITUATION IN AUOK-

LAND.

Per Press Association. Auckland, March 8. When the Conciliation Council resumed this morning, Mr Long, representing the hotel and, restaurant employees, said he was not ‘prepared to offer any evidence. Mr Giles stated that Mr Radford, one of the assessors, appointed by the Union, had resigned his seat on the Council ,• as a protest against Mr Long’s acti'on in;refusing to submit the dispute to Conciliation Council. The Secretary of the Union wrote that Mr E. Keenan has been appointed to act in Mr Radford’s stead. The proceedings were further adjourned for three weeks.

Mr Radfgrd, in forwarding his resignation, to Mr Harle Giles, enclosed a letter written to the Restaurant Employees’ Onion in which he stated that he resigned his seat on the Council as a protest against the position in which the Union wsb E laced before the ’public by' Mr iong refusing to submit evidence in support of the Union’s claim, seeing that the law provides for the settlement of disputes by conciliation before taking them to the Arbitration Court. He considered members of the Union were not justified in allowing personal feeling to prevent them attempting to arrive at a friendly settlement. He concluded “in flouting the Council the Union is playing against the law of the land and runs a risk of losing the support of public opinion which otherwise would be with them.”