"CONTINUITY ESSENTIAL."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 281, 28 November 1938, Page 6

"CONTINUITY ESSENTIAL."

r Mr. Sullivan and Mr. J. Roberts in I Christchurch, and Mr. Armstrong in j Auckland, at the week-end all said the same thing—that the Dominion, having an industrial arbitration systelh, is entitled to , some guarantee of industrial peace. Mr. j Sullivan said it whs essential that there should be "continuity of work and action behind the Government." This morning about 600 men at \Vestfield stopped work. Presumably this action (if action is the right word) was not intended as a direct comment on the Ministers' utterances, but it must be regarded as such. Once again tho question is raised: If two parties submit themselves to the judgment of an industrial _ tribunal, and one reserves the right to take extra-legal action if the tribunal's judgment is adverse to it, of what real use is the arbitration system 1 The Government, | knowing that the great mnjority of workers e do value the system, and do abide by its rules, must sooner or later face the question ot' curtailing the privileges of the minority which, to the inconvenience and loss of the M community, fnr too frequently demonstrates A it* irresponsibility.