OUR ARBITRATION LAWS.
Sir,—l notice Mr. F. V. Frazer has been appointed president of the Arbitration Court, which, I think, is an excellent appointment. However, I think the -whole arbitration business is wrong. It was brought into existence for the benefit of the trades unions, and yet these bodies flout the orders of the Court when they do not fit in with their ideas of what is right The employers have to obey the law! otherwise their property or bodies would be seized and held until judgment was satisfied. But one cannot conceive of 400 or 500 trades unionists being put in gaol for breaking an Arbitration Court award and this is the way in which these laws operate throughout. They are one-sided unfair, and restrictive. They hamper industrial operations in every direction and rob individuals of their natural rights and freedom of action, and, in the end, satisfy no one. Meantime the trades unions ride rough-shod over the community and exercise a perfect tyranny over trade and commerce, eta In my opinion the arbitration system is rotten, and ought to be swept away, and so let us return to a sane > system of give and take and mutual 1 agreement between man and man. FsEEßoaw Beiton-.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIVIII, Issue 17684, 20 January 1921, Page 3
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OUR ARBITRATION LAWS.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LIVIII, Issue 17684, 20 January 1921, Page 3
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