“ADMIRATION OF THE WORLD”
Sir.— It makes interesting reading to follow the course of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act in its working, on account of the way it has waxed and waned in favour first on one side and then the other. It i? a strange fact that the Act was put on the Statute Book by truly progressive statesmen, as an stabilise industry when the country was slowly recovering from the atrophying effesct of a Tory regime. Then, as now, it was fought tooth and nau by the employers, but who can deny the comparative prosperity which toilowed its inception? . We find to-day that from, Aucklana to Dunedin, and simultaneously, c “ bers of commerce, and various unions, are agitating for drastic an}endments to the Act, and in som unwise cases for its total abolition. All things considered, it is to be cerely hoped that the present Government will not tinker with a piece legislation which has been the a miration of the world, and w bien na» worked so equitably since the days the great Ballance and the grea Seddon . ~v CIIAS. BALLEI-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 8
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185“ADMIRATION OF THE WORLD” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 8
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