REMEDY FDR DISPUTES

Evening Star, Issue 18161, 29 December 1922, Page 3

REMEDY FDR DISPUTES

0.8.M.5. DISCUSSION. ARCHBISHOP ON ARBITRATION. [Special to tot, • Stah-I CHRISTCHURCH, December 28 Tli© conforanoe of 'representatives of too Church of England Men’s Socm 7 | continued to-night, when M e M • a { member of the society and secretary ot the New Zealand Labor an address upon the .subject Lho Church and Politics.’ Archbishop Juh«M Mr Nash prefaced ins address ine “politics” and the UirmctiPolitics, ho said, was defined in tho dictionary as the science of government, bn ] lO hefdl that polities ready controlled .m l governed the relations of one person with another. The man in tho street, he continued, considered that the Labor movement was an economic movement only. U was not; it stood for tho principle that men should love one another, and this was tho message which was given _to human ty by Jesus Christ. The principles that Christ advocated 1 had- to bo applied to every relationship in life, and unless this wa« done (ves, even to industrialism) it would ever" bo impossible to attain tho objects which were generally desired by all. Some of .tho men in the Labor movement wore tho purest and whitest of individuals. and if only they could ho brought to realise the tremendous importance ot the teachings of the Saviour they would shako New Zealand to its base. At tho conclusion of his address Mr Nash answered l a number of questions, amongst which was one by the chairman. His Grace asked if there had been any scheme brought forward wherein men oouid be brought together in a spirit of brotherhood to thresh out the matters which separated .the industrialists from tho workers of to-day. He did not mean the Arbitration Court system, which, he held, was rotten. Could it be done, he asked, by something analogous to the League of Nations? It must he outside of the Governments of tho countries, because they were unable to deal with it; but all the same it must he international in its scope.

Mr Nash, in reply, stated- that something of that nature ■ was being don© by the guild systems which were in operation to-day, but .the nearest solution lay in Industrial Parliaments. “ I believe this will bo the remedy yet,” ho concluded.