SHADOW OF AWARD

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11324, 30 September 1930, Page 2

SHADOW OF AWARD

arbitration and farm LABOR,

Thus the Christchurch “Press”:— “The dangers of extending to tanr. labor the wage-fixing- and other control of the Arbitration Court are so great that the executive of the North Canterbury Branch of the Farmers pinion has acted rightly m seeking; an explanation of a Bill amending the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitiation Act, introduced by the -Minister for Labor. In. • the opinion ot the Dominion executive of the luiion the effect of the amending Bill would be to make the issue of a. farm laborers’’ award possible. ' It provides for an indefinite extension oi 'he meaning of the phrase “industrial matters”, in the principal Act, it the parties to the dispute “expressly •mree” to its coming under the heading • and the question therefore is whether tlie express “agreement of. few farmers and laborers to go to the Court for an industrial award might, not bring one dowYf on agriculture as a whole What the .Minister means bv* the Bill may. he one tiling, and its present form.' another f but 'hither he means, or does not menu t make an agricultural atVardy possible. and. whether the Fill as diatted holds that threat, or not, a eitai and full. statement is necessary. ** the' Minister’s intention is what vs feared, the Bill is.highly contentious and" must guild will b'o strongly opposed.” ' .. .' .. , ~