AN UNTENABLE POSITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 30 April 1907, Page 2

AN UNTENABLE POSITION.

a conciliator and ykt a partisan. Tor Press Association. Wellington, April 2!). Ilit' Conciliation Hoard sat to-day to !)rar the dispute in the timber workers' raile. During (iie proceedings, y\i. (■'renfell, secretary of the Kmployers' Association, asked the chairman whether ihe Andrews Collins who had signed the ipplication for reference of the dispute lo the Roard in his capacity of secretary to the Timber Workers' I'nion was Ihe same gentleman of that name who KTiipied a seat on the Boaid. 'JV c Ini nan replied in the ailiriuative. .Mr. Jrenfell thereujjon expressed the opin ; "ii that il was contrary to custom, anu : mdly compatible with justice, that a :min should occupy a judicial position Hid at the same lime act as secretary o employees of the Timber Workers' Cnion. Mr. Collins could not, iu UiU lispute. be other than a partisan.

Mr. Collins asserted tint he had taken to part in drawing up the claims. lit v.as an honorary ollicer of the union, .'.lid drew no salary. There v.', s in,lung in the Act. to slop him sitting as a member of the Hoard.

The r"|>;v>.v'nlative of the union said Mr. Collins had nothing to do with ihe •neii's claim:-. His signature to the application for hearing the dispute was required by the rule.'i of the union and the Act. The chairman said the matter was one for the Legislature to deal with.