THE ARBITRATION ACT.
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DUNEMN, .April 5. At the Trades and Labour Conference the report of the committee.on ihe principle and war,king of the .Arbitration Act was neoeived. After referring to the relation ctf (.wages to the cost of living Jhe repot# stated that ihe Act was mot even a partial solution of the .economic and. social troubles of the wage-earning i •class. Nor t.can it ever tuuch the '< matter fanless the Court iie igiven powder to adjudicate on matters of interest, rent and profit at the same timers it dealf with wages. "We recommend," states the rfjport, ""that ifor the present the Councils and Unions shay Id be advised to adhene ifco the Af,t with the hojae ,of its beiEg improved upon, so .thai a warkijqg jnodus viwsndi could be sustained until the economist basii- .of society is altered. Jrcstead of j-elyeKg on the Act as the principal means <*d economic emancipate) we strongjj urge that the workers should seek relief along the lines of direct renre- [ sentatfon in Parliament, and on the 1 local Councils of the col<*iy and the ' ; gradual socialisation of the industries of the country," The report will be discussed tomorrow.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 6 April 1907, Page 5
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198THE ARBITRATION ACT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 6 April 1907, Page 5
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