ARBITRATION V. STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 3 April 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION V. STRIKE.

RECOVERY OF FINES. TRADES COUNCILS' PROTESTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) I WELLINGTON, this day. At a meeting of the Trades a_d 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considers section 15 of the Act is a blot upon such legislation, and demands that this section should be immediately repealed."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 IS of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1905, reads as follows: "All fees, fines, levies, or dues payable to an industrial union by any member thereof under its rules may, in 60 far as thoy are owing for any period of members]) ip, subsequent to the registration of flic 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."