Arbitration v. Strike.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3750, 6 April 1908, Page 2

Arbitration v. Strike.

By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wellington, Saturday.

At a meeting of the Trades and Labour Council last night, section 15 of the Industrial and Conciliation Act was discussed. It was the general opinion that delegates representing workers had a perfect right to use all methods for gaining better industrial conditions, and that strikes were justifiable when the Arbitration Court failed to deal fairly with the demands of the workers. The following resolution was passed: —“This council, after reviewing the present position of industrial law in the Dominion, considers section 15 of the Act is a blot upon such legislation, and demands that this section should be immediately repealed.”

Clause 15 of the Industrial Conciliation Act, 1905, reads as follows: “All fees, fines, levies, or dues payable to an industrial union by any member thereof under its rules mav, in so far as they are owing for any period of membership, subsequent to the registration of the society under this Act, be sued for and recovered in the name of the union in any Court of competent jurisdiction by the secretary or the treasurer of the union, or by any other person who is authorised in that behalf by the committee of management, or by the rules.”