INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 13969, 27 January 1906, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

THE AUSTRALIAN ACT. United Press Association—By Eiectrifi i Telegraph—Copyrigh t. SYDNEY, January 26. A remarkable circular has been- issued by Mr Riley, the employees’ representative on the Arbitration Court. He attacks the recent High. Court judgments in reviewing the findings of the Arbitration Court, and says that the Arbitration Act has now become a menace instead of a benefit to the industrial classes. All the penal and criminal sections of the Act remain, but all the other sections, which gave the employer and the employees opportunities of settling the conditions 1 of their industries, have been practically destroyed. The Arbitration Court, however anxious it may, be to do its duty, is harassed by judgments which leave it with practically no powers, and I Mr Riley urges its repeal or amend.- i ment. I