ARBITRATION ACT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 33, 2 November 1927, Page 13

ARBITRATION ACT

♦- — SEAMEN’S PROTEST AT PROPOSALS. At a "slop-work” meeting ,i n ton of the Federated Seamen s Union of New Zealand, at which 270 Members were nreseut, yesterday morning, the resolution was passed, concerning the proposed amendment of the industrial Conciliatjon aud Arbitration Act: “That this meeting of members of tho Federated Seamen’s Union of New Zealand realises that the proposed amendment to the 1.0. and A. Act has the following auU-working-class characteristics: "(1) In placing the patsoral outside the Court, and tho refusal to erant any further awards covering that industry, the amendment is in fact a wage SedSctioA to toe weakest organised section of tho New Zealand woikers. “(2) The provision for bargaining between tho employer and individual worker, known as payment by results, is a d.rect blow at the fundamental principle of trade unionism, namely—collective bare ri3) n Tiio proposal to substitute for the permanent assessor one a PP°' nt ® d (SL e single dispute w a direct attempt to maKe the present form of trade union organisation more susceptible to attack from the el "Thi y s ill moeting therefore, declares its willingness to co-operate with the rest ot the trade union movement in the fght fcr tho following as a reply to this man.fest employing class attack on the woikers of this country:— , .... . "(1) An agitation for the abolition of tho Court, and the struggle for the r.ght to collective bargaining by unions without State interference. “(2) An active campaign to ensme the full trade union wages and eruditions on all jobs. "(3) Whole-hearted support in a campaign for tho further organising of all country workers."