ARBITRATION ACT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6313, 13 September 1907, Page 5

ARBITRATION ACT

MB MILLAR’S EFFORTS AP- . PROVED. PBESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, September 13. At a meeting of the Auckland branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation last night, the following resolution, moved by Mr Harle Giles, was carried:—“That this branch congratulates the Minister of Labour cm his honest attempt to remove anomalies existing in the present 1 Arbitration Act, and this meeting strongly condemns the manifesto emanating from the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades and Labour Council at Wellington, and supported by the Labour bodies throughout the colony, attributing unworthy motives to the Minister of Labour.” The meeting further expressed the opinion that the main proposals of the Bill, if carried, would remove a great amount of dissatisfaction and would be found to be in the true interests of the workers. .In the course of the discussion, the “agitator” was said to be the cause of the whole trouble, and lie was referred to in very strong terms. Mr Harle Giles said ho had moved Hie resolution because he considered the Minister, who had done much for the labourer, had been unwarrantably maligned.