LABOUR MATTERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 168, 9 April 1908, Page 4

LABOUR MATTERS.

e ;;V -THE-'; IMMIGRANT,' THE MARKET, AND ' THE MAIN TRUNK. ARBITRATION COURT VOTING ■ [BY TELEGIUrU.— SPECIAL . CORItESI'ONDENT.I , '■ •• ■ A'ioklantl, April 8 ......, Tho , figures as-' to> rotes recorded by . tho .tho election of a ■ . . deputy • ■ representative .on the Arbitration i . Court .are given by a• writer of "Labour • "• m tho " Herald " as followsAV. ', •■, T. Young 109, A. Rosscr 39; A. Slater 20, , J. A, M'Culloygh .16, 11. Rusbridgo 14,• A. Collin? 4, W J. Jones 4, J E Scott 2, 15 ir?-i-P. Way 1, W. Townscnd 1, A. H. Cooper .■ .:■• ) 1, W: Hood 1,/ J. lloocl 1, and S. Boreham . . 1. It will thus bo seen that Air. Young; : scoured'an: absolute majority of tho Unions •'who recorded their votes. ■ '• ■ $2:j' ! ;/;.v:•;\7The^Mmb./writcr;yßyß^illeV• , ;;V>{>;question'.has'"been discussed; in linion .circles --S '.'Vduring t[thbv week,'i tho 'general.-,consensus of -jopinioriv being . that *the results; attained by . ffep S immigrants brought out during tho. past ; of . who can and invent ■ in' .farming:lands, are. desirable, lis' but '.with •reganl'.to'.-arti- : . recently. ! Arrived, it. is considered they havo. not dono.well,' nor aro' they likely to ; ;,:lKs£tef hero.The new arriit "is. claimed, cannot ijomilcte-with the ; .-v';^."';c6ldriia)^'-;.There' is at.'tbc/presontitinio, ac-' !,'■ cording ito-.tho union secretaries Who claimto bQ'iri. a position : to judg'o, a .sufficiency of • ' labour for all general purposes in Now Zoav' .land, arid in;'rtny tra<lo or. industry -Wages offered ?are'!goodmen; ate'. to vbc,'ob- , . ■ . . tainccl. -...With, regard' to' factories,. some' arc ''V.' certainly. short-handed, - but these, , c'lared to havo beoiv doing'a ''/cut" jii' the : the/.'girls^''.cannot' earn a living OWage/' aiul.'so ; .declinp : to:;-be.'; sweated:;,'.■ X -;Agaiii^tlicv 'say,'.-with regard to, unskilled' SS3[!"t-,lab<Hir /{navVies•' and .bushworkers), -'.the early :JE of;tho iifairi; Trunk: line;,will're- ' '^v jea^eoyfer,1000' : ,mqri,'wW}'will;\requirp;.cin-- ■ ' . .'ploynient 'in other'districts, and at present . there iswio'provisionnfadp for;the;installa- . tion of..new,..works / br. tho Government,.; and, without liew worksjtho .prospcct of, tho uik : skilled'workman 'is '.not too bright. .. •• : ..••;