ARBITRATION SYSTEM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 423, 14 June 1922, Page 5

ARBITRATION SYSTEM.

DECLARED TO BE A FAILURE. HANDICAP ON INDUSTRY. SYDNEY. June 18. Addressing the Social Christian Union, .Sir Henry Bniddon voiced the views of employers upon compulsory arbitration. lie doc-laved it had failed because it dohumanised the relations between employer and employee, Disputes were fought out in Court in the "ape ami tiger" spirit; the Uonrt table was a line of cleavage from which each side pushed its case to extremes. The Judge was placed in an entirely false position as he could not possibly become conversant with all the intricate details of every industry. There had been far more strikes since the advent of the compulsory method than before. Industry was stmoling along under nil sorts of conflicting awards. Mr George t aim, a member of the Assembly, speaking on the Labour side, said he favoured the retention of compulsory arbitration so that the contributions of the parties io production might be ascertained and so find out how much of the price of goods was wages and how much profits, tie declared that if the perjury laws were in operation in the Arbitration Courts, many witnesses on both sides might to be in gaol.—Press Association.