INDUSTRIAL PEACE

Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL PEACE

THE ARBITRATION SYSTEM

PROFESSOR TOCKER’S VIEWS

Press Association—.By Telegraph-- Copyright.

SYDNEY, February 3

(Received February 3, at noon.)

Professor Tocker, in a lecture, said ho welcomed Mr Bruce’s suggested round table conference between the employers and the employees and the conference that had been called by the New Zealand Government as a practical step towards the solution of industrial problems. Professor Tocker said the large organisations required by both employers and employees to light their hattles in the realm" of compulsory arbitration were not only costly, but were causing a breakdown of the very system of mediaation which the Arbitration Court was designed to foster. The community was faced with two ideals. One was the utmost freedom in industry, with both sides concentrating on production, the elimination of waste, development with the greatest possible liberty, and with responsibility thrown upon individuals and voluntary groups, a system which was working exceedingly well in America. The other ideal was the perpetuation of the State control, with an attempt to protect the worker, hut actually to restrict and hamper industry without granting the worker any real benefit, and without tho court performing any really necessary service, though by its own system of centralisation magnifying the very problems it attempted to solve.