INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 69, 20 March 1908, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

New South. Wales Legislation,

I (Received 9.38 a-m.) SYDNEY, this day. In the Legislative Assembly the Premier (Mr. Wade), in moving the second I reading of the Industrial Disputes Bill, I said they could not rely on moral sentiment only if they wanted awards to be observed under all circumstances by all parties. Employers generally had tangible assets to levy upon, but the case of employees was different, therefore the bill provided for the recovery of penal- . ties not only from individual's but from , the unions to which they belonged, unless Jit was shown that the unions had honestIly done their duty in seeking to have the ■ awards respected. lie was not prepared Ito concede preference to unionists, but if ! the two sides agreed to preference they would be well within their rights. Mr. Beeby stated the case for the Opposition. He declared that the NewZealand Act had gradually built up amendments, in which the encouragement of the formation of unions and provisions for collective bargaining had never been lost sight of. Legislation on the New Zealand lines was desired here, and the Opposition were prepared to accept the bill if certain concessions were made. These included a permanent industrial court, presided over by a Supremo Court judge, with absolute final I jurisdiction, the maintenance of the present system of registration and organisation and encouragement of collective bargaining, extension of scope to include all matters of industrial dispute and power to ascertain and consider profits in fixing wages and industrial conditions.

ARBITRATION COURT'S DILEMMA.

(Received 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. In further adjourning the Arbitration Court on account of the strikes, tbe President stated that in the face of continuous flouting of the Court it had become a question whether he would withdraw or stay the sittings of the Court.