MINOR LABOUR DISPUTES

Evening Star, Issue 22560, 30 January 1937, Page 11

MINOR LABOUR DISPUTES

POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF " INDUSTRIAL MAGISTRATES " RELIEF FOR ARBITRATION COURTS [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH. ‘January 29. Before next session of Parliament begins the Minister of Labour (Mr Armstrong) will make recommendations to the Government for relieving the Arbitration Court of some of the work which has been accumulating since its industrial powers were restored. Exactly what action he will recommend the Government to take has not been determined by the Minister. “ There is no doubt that there is too much pressure on the court at present,” Mr Armstrong said to-day, “ and the setting up of another tribunal to deal with compensation cases would not bo enough. There are too many details submitted to the court ’ that should never have got into the habit of going to the court without the parties having agreed on anything.” Although the Minister said he had not yet decided definitely what recommendations to make to the Government, he had_ considered tho appointment of industrial magistrates to hear and settle minor disputes. The judging of minor clauses of agreements by conciliation commissioners with one'representative of each party like a secondary court had also been suggested to him, but he had as yet made no decision.