WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 92, 14 May 1909, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

ATTACHMENT OF WAGES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. C'iiristchurch. Last Night. Mr. Day, Stipendiary Magistrate, today made absolute orders for the attachment of wages of two slaughtermen who took part ill the slaughtermen's strike and failed to pay the fine imposed by the Arbitration Court. In one £o°lo' 0 S '"" ™ Cl ' aml Uw flthfr SIMPLIFYING THE AKIUTUATION PROCEEDINGS. ll,v Telegraph.— Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night, Mr, J. R. Trigg*. ..neiliatiou Commissioner. interviewed to-day. said lie was strongly of opinion that'an amendment was desirable in lot* direction of simplifying' the proredure of bringing eases before the Industrial Council or taking them to the Arbitration Court. More latitude should be given the Commissioner for bringing the parties together and arriving at a settlement, and when that. settlement was arrived at it should either have the full force of an arbitration award or be sent on to the Court and be mnde into an award without any reference to the Cmncil of Conciliation, lie preferred the latter alternative, because there might be some question of jurisdiction and legal phraseology that would be better handled by a Court. There would also be an additional check 011 any errors that might crop up in connection with the drafting of awards. lie understood something might be done during the ensuing' session of Parliament in that directum.