MR SEDOON AND THE LONDON TIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 208, 29 September 1903, Page 2

MR SEDOON AND THE LONDON TIMES.

HE DEFENDS THE ARBITRATION | COURT. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION | Wellington, September 28. On Friday last a cablegram from London conveyed information that Mi ; S add on had written a long letter to th< Times 3n the subject of New Zealand's Conciliation and Arbitration Act. TLj ' text of this letter is now available | In it he replies at considerable length o statements made in a communicatioi to tha Times by its New Zealand cor respondent. In regard to the working of the Act, he says : " Keferring to th< asserted by your corres pondent to exist in regard to decision! of the Arbitration Court, there is mosi certainly no general or widespread dissatisfaction. Here anl there em p'oyers express themselves as disap i pointed, and now and then worker! utter growlings of displeasure. Thii must be in the very nature of things when an employer loses he is dissatis S-d and when the worker fails to gait his point he in his turn is displeased but there never was yet a tribune' whose decision was hailed by the losing ■side with satisfaction. Oan an em ployer who wishes to piy 6s a day ft lis workmen f.hl ovetjayod when ti c '?ourt orders h ; m to pay a day' is of course dissatisfied. Oa ih< other hind the wo;knm whoae sppli oatioti for rise in pay has b.-on re u « '•y 'h a Uourr, in hus tutn is di-s«!isfi«», ind if so thfiro will probably bj amoii£ members of his J'z'ade Union eoom loud voiced persra who will mak( speeches instantly caught up and senl ibroad ad nauseam by the press reporters. The Premier also dii ousses the case in regard to the famous Auckland furniture trade dispute, pointing out that the whole misunderstanding arose out of the construe cioa to be p), ced on the word " incom potent" as applied to workmen and abat the ruling the Arbitration \mrfc in the matter enormously sireogthened its position. He then, afcer pointing to tha great advances «ude by the colony of late years, say 6 scarcely a day passes but some industrial union of employees is registered under the Arbitration, Act to more fully meet the eirli«r organisation of Workers Unions. Yet utterances cf lissatisfaction are cotiflasd either to 'hose whom the Act his compelled to lo justice to their work-people or to the narrow fringe of failures in trade unionism.