THE ARBITRATION ACT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 230, 22 June 1908, Page 2

THE ARBITRATION ACT.

1—: SOJIE GOOD ADVICE. • (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, June 20. Addressing the employees of the' Kauri Timber Company this afternoon 'on the occasion of their presentation to mark his departure, Mr. T. H. White, who has been tho Company's mill manager for some years, said that the Arbitration Act was' a beneficent one, and had been placed on tho Statute Book in the interests of tho workers of Now Zealand. He considered that the Act had done a lot of good for the workers. Tho Court was presided over by a Judge of the Supremo Court, and in a British country a Judge of the Supremo Court was far removed from .political and-other influences, .so all their judgments were impartial. Sometimes the awards did not please both sides, but that >was because too much was asked. He thought tho men would admit that law-breakers were undesirables,' au'd a body of workers who deliberately throw down its tools and went on strike broke the law as deliberately as a man who threw a - stone through a plate-glass window. He hoped sincerely that tho timber workers would never go on strike. If ever they had a grievance they should tako it before their omployers, who would meet them justly and considerately. They should always endeavour to settle their disputos by conference as had been successfully done in the past! If they continued to elect good men of thenown calling to hold the offices in their Union he did not think there would be any trouble between the workers and tho employers.