ARBITRATION BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1922, Page 4

ARBITRATION BILL.

SOME AMENDING CLAUSES. PROPER ACCOUNTS BY UNIONS. (By Wire-Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. The Industrial, Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill, which was introduced in the House early this morning, provides that a dispute affecting two or more districts may be heard by a Council of Conciliation. Industrial unions and other labor organisations must keep proper accounts, and provision is made for thpir audit and for the handing of a copy of the audited accounts to the registrar of industrial unions. The registrar may require any union to submit its accounts to a public auditor. County councils and road boards are to be exempt from the operation of the principal Act in every award or industrial agreement made in the future. Provision ifi to be made for the setting up of a disputes committee. Amendments relating to the appointment of the nominated member of the Court are proposed. No person is to be required to pay an entrance fee of more than 5s on his admission to a union, and no levy or other charge except the subscription is to be payable by any member until the expiration of at least one month after his admission to the union. There are also some minor clauses in the Bill.