AUCKLAND CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3133, 9 March 1909, Page 7

AUCKLAND CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

SITTING FURTHER ADJOURNED By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 8. When the Conciliation Council resumed this morning, Mr Long, representing the hotel and restaurant employees, said he was not prepared tn offer any evidence. Mr Giles stated that Mr Radford, cue of the assessors appointed by the union, had resigned his seat on the Council as a protest against Mr Long's action in refusing to submit the dispute to the Conciliation Commissioners. The secretary of the union that Mr E. Keanan had been appointed to act in Mr Radford's stead. [ Proceedings were further adjourned I for three weeks. MR RADFORD'S RESIGNATION. AUCKLAND, March 8. Mr Radford, in forwarding his resignation to Mr Harle Giles, Conciliation Commissioner, enclosed a letter written to the Restaurant Employees' Union, in which he stated that he had resigned his seat on the council as a protest against the posi- . tion in which the union had been placed before ths public by Mr Long in refusing to submit evidence to support the union claim, seeing that the law provides for settlement of disputes by conciliation before tak- , ing them to the Arbitration Court. I Be considered the members of the { union were not justified in allowing j' pers-mal feeing to prevent them j attempting to arrive at a friendly j settlement. He concluded:— "In j flouting the council the union is playing against the law of the I lind, and runs the ri~k of losing the . support of public opinion, which : otherwise would be with them." j