ARBITRATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14821, 12 November 1913, Page 9

ARBITRATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT

(By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received November 11th, 6.45 p.m.) ■SYDNEY; November 11."

Tho final report of tho Royal Commission on Industrial Arbitration in New South Wales, urges tho necessity of the employment of men of tho highest judicial capacity in dealing with arbitration matters, and makes various suggestions with a view to improving the present methods of procedure. After mentioning that arbitration legislation, is still experimental legislation, though it has had twelvo years' trial, it says thero is no doubt that a mental change ha 3 been wrought in the men by constantly seeing and participating, in judi- i cial methods of investigation, which has engendered distaste for and distrust of methods of trial by force, and a willingness to abandon them and abide by methods of reason and law. It declares that, in a general sense, the public is against treating strike leaders as criminals. However disastrously for themselves and their fellows; however viciously against tho public interests they may have acted, they can as a rule, only in a academic or rhetorical sense, be described as criminals.