ARBITRATION AMENDMENT

Northern Advocate, 10 November 1927, Page 6

ARBITRATION AMENDMENT

PIECEWORK DUBBED SWEATING. VARIOUS VIEWS. WELLINGTON, This Day, Before the Labour Bills Committee, Mr T. Bloodworth. said that the unions he represented considered the Bill unnecessary. The amendments were impracticable. He traversed the provisions regarding piecework and condemned them as protecting sweating. This witness was followed by Mr H. Sterling, ananager of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co., of Hamilton, who said they required the Court as the greatest safeguard against the interference of union secretaries. There was no indication that feeling would be less intense if the Court were abolished. Ho supported Mr Fisher’s proposal for some tribunal to finalise matters between employers and workers. It was the first concrete proposal with which he had come into contact.

Mr Dynes Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, endorsed Mr Fisher’s suggestion to have a tribunal within tho industry. Mr W. M. Mulholland, of Darfield, Canterbury, chairman of the agricultural committee of the North Canterbury Farmers’ Union and a member of the Dominion Board of tho Farmers’ Union, stressed the necessity exempting farm labourers, iucluduig«| workers in the threshing industry, Mr A. D. Morton, president of the National Dairy Association, affirmed that the dairy industry should be exempt. If the industry were taken out of dhe Act, he would not fear any upheaval. The Executive Council of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, at present holding its quarterly meeting in Wellington, has passed the following resolution: “That this executive strongly protests against the proposed alterations to the I.C. and A. Act, and advises all members of the A.B.R.S. to 00-operate with other ' organisations, with a view to blocking the passing of the Bill.” —Press Assn.

INTERNAL TRIBUNAL EVIDENCE,

ONE JUDGE ENOUGH.

WELLINGTON, This Day

Further evidence, on behalf of the dairy industy in regard to the Arbitration Amendment Bill was given before the Labour Bills Committee by Mr Fisher, chairman of the Farmers’ Dairy Federation of Southland today. Southern farmers, he said, stood be* hind the Bill though there was doubt of its being a complete solution. Ho believed that a tribunal within an industry would solve the problem, if with right of appeal to a judge who alone should judge a case on evidence placed before the internal tribunals. A judge had bigger things than these to settle and three judges would hot be needed.

Mr T. Bloodworth, of Auckland, submitted evidence on behalf of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters ■and Joiners, and several other Auckland unions.