THE ARBITRATION ACT.
TliJta is a suspicion in the minds of a'certain a)umber pi workers that the provisions of the Arbitration. Act are being flagrantly broken in Mtusterton and elsewhere, and that appeals to the Inspectors to enforce the Act have been made fruitless by instructions from tlie head of the Department. The Secretary of one of the Masterton Unions informs us that he has made specific charges of evasions of the Act, but that, so far as ho has been able to discover, no penalties have been imposed. This matr ter has a very serious bearing upon the attitude of trade unionists in the present crisis. We do not believe for a moment "that the Government has given instructions for the relaxing of the law in raspect to prosecutions. We should be glad, however, of an assurance that the Inspectors will enter prosecutions whenever breaches' of the Act are discovered. It is only by a proper observance of the terms of the different awards by both parties that the 1 confidence of the people • can be retained in the arbitration laws.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 November 1913, Page 4
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182THE ARBITRATION ACT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 November 1913, Page 4
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