ARBITRATION COURT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 141, 26 March 1928, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

EMPLOYERS’ REPRESENTATIVE. MR G. T. BOOTH APPOINTED. (Per Press Association.) C WELLINGTON, This Day. ' Mr George T. Booth, of Christchurch, the only nomination for the position of employers’ representative on the Arbitration Court, has been declared duly elected. Mr Sidney E. Wright (secretary of the Auckland Employers’ Association) has been appointed deputy-employers’ representative. CONFERENCE MEETS TO-MORROW

COMPREHENSIVE SCOPE. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The conference called by the Government to consider the working of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act will commence at Parliament Buildings, Wellington, to-morrow.

The order of reference for the conference is comprehensive. In addition to set questions, the delegates will be permitted to discuss any phase of the relations between employer and employee. With nearly 80 delegates in attendance, the deliberations will no doubt be protracted. It is anticipated that the procedure will be the setting up of a number of committees to deal with different phases of the problem and to report to the main conference. Subjects which have been suggested fqr discussion are the following : (a) The effect of the present system of industrial legislation on—(1) The welfare of the country. (2) The interests of employers. (3) The interests of the workers.

(b) The effect of the present system of industrial legislation on the primary industries of the Dominion on which the prosperity of New Zealand ultimately depends. (c) The possibility of adjusting the effect of industrial awards and agreements on the primary industries, taking into account (1) their fixed income from the sale of their products abroad, and (2) any other method of erfeouraging primary industries. (d) The exclusion or inclusion of any particular industry from or in the I.C. and A. Act.

i'e) The basis upon which award rates should be fixed.

(f) Payment by piecework or otherwise, according to volume of output. (g) The constitution of the Court ef Arbitration and the representation thereon of parties concerned. (h) Preference to unionists. (i) Improved methods of avoiding industrial disturbances and other like delays in carrying on industry.. (j) Such alterations, if anv. as are desirable in the industrial legislation of the Dominion, (k) Apprenticeship. (l) Immigration.

The following delegates will represent the New Zealand Employers’ Federation:—Messrs W. C. Shailer Weston (president of the New Zealand Federation), H. Mainland (president of the Wellington Association), W. G. Gawitb (representing the Union Co.), A. G. Henderson (Christchurch), and T. 0. Bishop (secretary of the Federation).