ARBITRATION
THE COMPULSORY SYSTEM
The" statement. that he had never had any respect for the arbitration system in New Zealand was made today by Mr. T. O. Bishop, secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation,, at the Conciliation Council proceedings in regard to the .shop assistants' dispute. . ■ i ' Referring to a suggestion by Mr. A. W. Croskery, one of the workers' representatives, that if they weTe unable to agree to a particular issue relating to the raising of the starting ago of juniors and the payment to them of a wage of 12s 6d a week the matter should be referred to the Arbitration Court, Mr. Bishop said he did not think the employers would agree to refer the dispute to the Court. Under existing trading conditions employers did not feel that they could entrust their business to the guidance of anyone who did not have an intimate knowledge of it. The position was different in more prosperous times. Mr. Croskery: It doesn't say much for tho Judge of the Arbitration Court or the Court. Mr. Bishop replied that as a man he respected the Judge of the Arbitration Court, but he had never respected the institution. He did not think the compulsory system of arbitration would ever stand the test of difficult times. It had stood in New Zealand for a long time because of about thirty years of unbroken prosperity.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1933, Page 8
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232ARBITRATION Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1933, Page 8
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