ARBITRATION ACT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8461, 11 June 1907, Page 6

ARBITRATION ACT.

PETITION FOR ITS REPEAL OR AMENDMENT. The fallowing petition, to be presented to the House of Representatives, is being circulated for signatures in Masterton, with a view to having the Arbitration Act repealed or amended:—We, the undersigned persons engaged in local industries within the Borough of Masterton, respectfully petitiun Parliament to repeal the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration . Act. Labour Union agents, living in the cities, continually stir up strife in the country districts, and make demands upon country industries, which,, if acceded to, would ruin them. Your petitioners point out that these demands are vexatious, and have a direct tendency to restrict and injure trade. These recurring demands do not emanate from country workers, but come direct from the cities. Your petitioners contend that the Industrial "Conciliation and Arbitration Act, as now constituted, is manifestly injurious country interests, and therefore seek relief from its operations and effects. ' We, therefore, pray that you will .take the necessary sieps to have the Act repealed, or so amended, that in 'the country districts, it shall be made permissive, the enforcement or repeal of its provisions being dependent on a vote of the tradesmen and workers concerned.