INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

Grey River Argus, 10 January 1928, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

During Last Year. I CONCILIATION COMMISSIONER S COMPLACENCY. JMr. Pat Hally, who holds down a nice comfortable position as a Conciliation Commission r waxes quite enthusiastic over the fact that there were very few Industrial disputes in New Zealand in 1927. This j s due lo a combination of causes, the chief one. being that the workers of N.Z. have” been lulled into submission to accept existing wages and conditions, by years of scientific dragooning by thBosses’ Arbitration Court. Considering that the workers of N.Z. on the average are producing commodities per year to the value or £5OO to £6OO and receive back in the form of wages per medium of the Arbitration system £l5O to £2OO, O ne does not need to be much of a mathematician or an agitator to under stand why we get such fulsome laudation of the Arbitration system from the exploiters and their henchmen! Th farmers of course, who are easv game for the financial sharks fulminate against the workers and their organisations and the Arbitration Awards; but that is simply because they belive the dope giv n out that it I is the wage workers and their organ- I isations who are the farmers’ enemies, 4 and are responsible for the bondage ’ in which the financial Shylocks have them gripped. Some day the workers and the working farmers N.Z. will wake up and find that they 1 have a lot in common. When thev do that the Capitalist System and its upholders will have cause to become alarmed.