The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE. Proprietor. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1900.
The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Acts, hitherto in force, divided tha colony into districts and the application of decisions, as to mode of conducting any particular .trade, only applied to the district in which it was giveu. The Bill, which lias now passed Committee in the House,'makes a decision of a court arrived at by consideration of the circumstances surrounding a trade in a portion of the colony binding upon all engaged in the same business. The Bill is the outcome of Trades' Union organisation, the immediate effect of which is to bring the exceptionally good and industrious workman down to the level of the average man, as the rules compel the same wages to be paid to every journeyman. The effect of the new Bill will be to reduce employees down to a common level. Those who have had the enterprise to adopt the latest machinery and most up-to-date methods of manufacture are to be deprived of the advantages which should most certainly accrue to them, and this in order that they may not command the market to the disadvantage of the men who are behind the times. Protection, as we have often pointed out, is and must always remain injurious to the farmingcommunity. The present Bill accentuates the evil, by the protection of the less competent manufacturers against the improved methods adopted by those in the van of the trade. This means an addition to the burdens of the community to the extent of the sum which'under natural conditions the advanced men could under-sell the laggards. It must also be remembered that the climate and conditions of life vary very much in different parts of the colony, which of course renders one place more fitted for any particular manufacture than another. Surely it is time that the cultivators of the soil should rise as one man and protest against this sort of thing.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 752, 12 September 1900, Page 2
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324The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE. Proprietor. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1900. Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 752, 12 September 1900, Page 2
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