ARBITRATION SYSTEM.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1922, Page 5

ARBITRATION SYSTEM.

OMPULSION REJECTED Melbourne, August 17. The death-knell of compulsory arbitration by the South Australian State Court has been sounded. It has been on its trial for several years, and the State Ministry has declared it to be so sadly wanting that it must be abolished as quickly as possible. This statement was made to-day by the Premier of South Australia (Sir Henry Barwell), who is on a visit to Melbourne. “Compulsory arbitration is not helpful to industry,” he said. “It is positively harmful.” Some time ago, continued Sir Henry Bar well, he had announced publicly that if the Federal Ministry would abolish the Federal Court the South Australian Ministry would follow the lead and terminate the activities of the State Court. He was tired of waiting, and his Ministry now intended to take the lead itself. At an early date two Bills would be introduced, one to repeal the industrial arbitration law and the other to establish a system of wages tribunals, somewhat similar to that in operation before compulsory arbitration was introduced, and also similar in many respects to the Victorian Wages Board system.