ARBITRATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 18 June 1912, Page 5

ARBITRATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Considerable trepidation is being felt by union seecretaries at the possibilities that lie hiden in the new Industrial Arbitration Act, says the Sydiiey Daily Telegraph. Most of them are spending nearly all their time at the Industrial Court in order to watch the interests of their respective unions, and some of them expressed the opinion that the Act will prove a failure. "The one hundred and twenty-seven regulations issued by Judge Scholes, in connection with the Act," remarked a union official recently, "are an absolute puzzle to the lay mind," and another said he thought he would be "dead and gone" before his turn came to get a board for his union. The complaint is made that with only one chairman for each industry—comprising five or six boards—the business will pile up so high and become so congested that the Act will break down by its own weight. Other officials, however, are more optimistic, and say it will prove highly satisfactory.