ARBITRATION ACT
RESTORATION REQUIRED. [Per - Press' Association. — Ccvyright.] DUNEDIN, This Day. 'At the annual meeting of the New Zealand . Federated Woollen Mills and. Hosiery Factory Employees’ Industrial Association, when delegates from Auckland, Kaiapoi, Christ-j church,', Dunedin and Mosgiel were ! present, ‘; the matter of the amend- j ment of the Arbitration Conciliation i Act was discussed, and there was a feeling that the Government’s action in. so amending the Act had contributed more towards industrial upheaval'and the deepening of difficulties than Could be imagined. It was hoped that the Government would see the evil of its action and would enact legislation in the coming session that would restore the compulsory clauses of the Act. The conference also deplored the action of the Employers’ Association in issuing a statement that the industry could not stand a restoration of the cut in wages, and comment waS made on the fact that handsome dividends had been paid to shareholders, of .woollen mills that were j working only part time. I d
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Northern Advocate, 29 December 1934, Page 10
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