PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS.
(DY telegraph.—press association). Wellington, Last Night. Mr Quick, Chairman of the Conciliation 80-rd, speaking with reference to the question of preference to Unionists, said there was one point over-looked by those who argued most strongly against the granting of preference. Tiie Act itself was passed in order to prevent friction between labour and capital, and to prevent strike. The Unions, it should be remembered, existed befoie that time. The Court of Abitration when it first sat under the presidency of Mr Justice Williams into consideration that the Union being strong enough to rule the labour market by striving to bring about a catastrophe in one and perhaps many branches of labour. Inasmuch as the Act took away power to strike, the union should be given some compensation ; that compensation took the form of this so-called preference. That was an argument which was never taken into consideration at ail. The Act was passed to protect employers as well as the men and public. Mr Quick hoped that ere loug all employers would form associations, and then committees from both sides would deal with many of these disputes in camera without that publicity being giveu which was sometimes not desirable.
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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 527, 16 December 1899, Page 2
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