MR SLATER AND THE ARBITRATION COURT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7241, 29 July 1907, Page 4

MR SLATER AND THE ARBITRATION COURT.

Ihe workers' representatives on the Arbitration Court was interviewed by a New Zealand Times reporter last week. Part of the interview was historical, Ah Slater pointing out that the Aibitratioiv Court first sat on July 7, ISSG. Ho hut been a member sin.cc tho mcepkon .oi \he Act, and has sat on every case be fore tho Court. The workers' rare-se-ntative has sat with six successive presidents of the Court and with two employers' Representatives. Ihe interview concludes as follows: . . Asked what the • Court had m Ins •opinion, done, for labour, Mr Slater said it had brought it a great and solid gain Conditions, especially in the lower paid branches, had vastly improved. n some of the skilled trades, too, tiieie had been a considerable improvement. He instanced the painters, carpenters and workers in the f^uro . ...ln the earlier days of the Act the Cone illation Boards did very good fork— settled o-rievances without them having to go before the Court, Since the T&illB blot,'' however (the ™\ end™f *?, "i lowing direct reference to the __i.it without going before the board) not many cases had been settled by the Kds, except, perhaps in Canterbury.