THE ARBITRATION ACT.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 274, 24 May 1907, Page 4

THE ARBITRATION ACT.

[PER PREBB ASSOCIATION.] Dunediu, May 23. A meeting of the Otago Employers' Association was held to-day, when the secretary, Mr \V. Scott, addressed members on the trend of matters in connection with the administration of the Arbitration Act, as indicated in recent rulings and awards of the Court. The only resolution that was passed had reference to the award delivered by the Court in the dispute which was heard before it at its sittings in Dunedin — '-That this meeting views with alarm the innovation introduced by the Court in the felt hatters trade, in which the principle of weekly employment has been embodied in the award and granted to workers in the manufacturing trade, workers who are in receipt of overtime rates, and further that this meeting is of opinion that the industries of the Colony have now more than they can bear and that if an additional burden is placed upon them in the shape of a full week's pay whether worked whole or part, it will undubtedly cripple many of the struggling industries and be to the detriment of all workers and employers alike; that the matter be referred to the New Zealand Employers' Federation with a view to concerted action being taken to protect the industries of th© Colony from any additional burdens."