PUBLIC OPINION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16492, 6 March 1914, Page 10

PUBLIC OPINION.

FROM YESTERDAY’S PAPERS

(By Telegraph.)

ARBITRATION FAILURES

All. the costly legal appliances that have beeu devised here and in the Commonwealth for the settlement of industrial disputes and the trained officials that are at the service of aggrieved workers or employers at the cost ot the country are rendered nugatory by such high-handed proceedings as those troubling our Sydney neighbours. If these social barbarisms are allowed to continue, Arbitration Acts might as well be torn out of the Statute Book. If lawbreakers are allowed to carry on wrong-doing-them-selves and to corrupt the allegiance of their fellows the orderly and welldoing do not get that square deal that is so much talked about at the present time. The Sydney authorities have hud a good lead quite recently from New Zealand and South Africa in dealing with riotous labour leaders, and the sooner open defiance properly constituted authority is put an end to effectually tho better it will lio for all ■ classes of the community.— Dunedin <{ Star.” \