INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 73, 21 March 1908, Page 2

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

THE, Is'EW SUl'Tll WALES BILL. Sydney, Jlarch 20. In the Assembly l'reiuier Wade moved the Second reading of the Industrial Disputes Bill. He said they could not rely on moral sentiment only if they wanted awards to be observed under till circumstances by all parties. Employers generally had tangible assets to levy' upon, but the case of the employee was different. Therefore the Bill provided for the recovery of penalties for striking not only from individuals, but from the unions to which they belonged,

Unless it were shown that the unions hail honestly done their duty in seeking to have the awards respected he was not prepared to concede preference to unionists; but if the two sides agreed on preference they would be well within their rights.

Mr. Beeby stated the ease i'or the Opposition. He declared the New Zealand Act had gradually built up' amendments in which the encouragement of the formation of unions and provisions for collective bargaining had never been lost sign of. Legislation on the New Zealand lines was desired here. The Opposition was prepared to accept the Bill if certain concessions were made. These included a permanent Industrial Court presided over by a Supreme Court Judge with absolute final, jurisdiction, the maintenance of the present system of registration and organisation, and the encouragement of collective bargaining, the extension of the scope of the Court to include all matters of industrial dispute and the power to .ascertain and consider prolits in fixing wages and industrial conditions.