THE AUCKLAND LABOURERS' DISPUTE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14232, 21 December 1911, Page 7

THE AUCKLAND LABOURERS' DISPUTE.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, December 20. Tho situation in regard to the threatened industrial trouble following upon tlio action of tho Auckland j General Labourers' Union in"' serving demands upon several sections of trade and suburban bodies for higher pay and shorter hours, ia unchanged. Mr Parry, vice-president of the Federation of Labour, arrived from Wellington today. In an interview Mr Parry said: — "'lt is quite evident that the employers are not being guided by tho modern school and experience. In my opinion it is futile, for the employers to try to resuscitate tho Arbitration Act, which h.i 6 been recognised for some time as an institution which has outlived its usefulness, and as having belonged to a dead age- I consider that their resolutions arc a deliberate attempt to crush the Union and tho right of workers to combine —our most vital principle. I am surprised at such a stand being taken, and fear that it might mean a stoppage of tho great industrial clock. It is to be hoped that wisdom will' prevail with them, and n so, that they will see that the workers have rights, and will meet them round the common table. Then after discussing working conditions from A to Z they might arrive at a satisfactory agreement.'