ABRITRATION AMENDMENT

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3677, 22 March 1932, Page 4

ABRITRATION AMENDMENT

Tims the great fonumter of trouble, the. well paid special pleader or unions, will, like HaniJet, find, his occupation gone. Instead disputes being national affairs, the troubles will be settled secttonally. This it happens will the awards lose their cast-iron effect. Ii for instance, an industry in Canterbury ea mxo»t any longer pay the wage rates under the present award, thou the employers in that industry can. call in. the powers of tin* Conciliation Council to revise the present rates, oven though ii b<> possible that Auckland or Dunedin can. pay the present rate. Everything possible, for a sottlment of the differences must be settled now by Conciliation. These are the main points in. the drastic reform effected under the- Industrial Conciliation and Arhitratiiqn Bill. which should have no difficulty in pasisng the Legislative Ccuneil. But the measure mu Id only have been got through the House by application of the Closure. Eight days and nights were spent on the Bill and at the final stage the stonewall lasted 30 hours without even adjournment for meals. There were 46 divisions in Committee and 20 in the other stage s of the struggle and the Closure- - “that the question be now put,” moved by the Prime Afinistey—was applied 15 times in all. Industry mow awaits the passing of the companion measure the Apprentices "Bill.