TO KILL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
COMMENT ON ARBITRATION BILL (Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 7. Claiming to represent 54,000 unionists, James lloberts, secretary of tho Alliance of Labor, gave evidence before the Labor Bills Committee to-day regarding the Arbitration Act Amendment Bill. He said ho was instructed to enter objections against all clauses in the Bill which would cause unnecessary industrial strife. The measure would kill all confidence in the arbitration system. It would kill collective bargaining, and would result in sweating. Farmers would find that they had drawn a blank in tho political lottery. The idea of casual assessors was impracticable. Mr A. Cook (general secretary of the New Zealand Workers’ Union), on behalf of the 11 unions of shearers, threshing machine employers, musterers, packers, and drovers proposed to he exempted by the Bill, said there were .about 4,000 Natives engaged in shearing, and if they were deprived of arbitration it would inflict great hardship and lead to sweating. If they were deprived of their awards a big reduction in wages would ensue, and ho was opposed to the proposed amendments in the Bill.
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Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 10
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185TO KILL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 10
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