E OUR ARBITRATIO LAWS FAILED.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43065, 5 March 1907, Page 4

E OUR ARBITRATIO LAWS FAILED.

saiA'Mrß. iS. Abraham,, of North., in a recent speech. made an important suggestion tc the .matter of labor, |B(, so largely affetots. the fanning jggSgjßninity. They would..have noticed, the absolut e failure of the arlaw in connection, with the ■H^htcnnentey-trike. The, men, struok defiaaLce of the Act. They had an■■|ksr instance of the uselessness of : daw in the case of .the; flax-mill There, the employers and em-|HJoyees-eame to an agreement, but Conciliation Board over-rode this an award-.—which was and unworkable. There was one. way these, tkino's could ba HHedfod. The mercantile community WmM Juiose engaged- in agriculture must hand in hand instead of separate-CC'Hfc-TKe farmers aVeady had their lißffon, and it- could- be made a very instrument for looking after interests. His advice was to form association of both sections of the to -inaugurate legislation .would iprotect their mutual infar ’as our arbitration laws co'ncemed he? considered them a. ; -anct «<■ failure.