EMPLOYERS INEXORABLE

NZ Truth, Issue 438, 15 November 1913, Page 5

EMPLOYERS INEXORABLE

Farther Attempts at Settlement - Rejected, ?

' Red Fedi. Must Get Djwn and Out.

Men Btand Fi/*m*

\ -, J Just on the point of going to press, tast Friday "Truth's" rep. obtained pos- '•■', session of a. proposed ■ propounded and , put f orwsird by feev- .. • aral representative farmers, Including ■ such Influential members of the i'armers* Union as Messrs. PoVdrell, i'orsythe, Russell. Bid well. Chambers nud ißarton.: It is unnecessary ; to go ;into ithe circumstances leading up to the ■':'".^cqrmiGilailo^:Ot the name, other than to - litter that on the 1 previous evening the ' [foregoing gentlemen, wrlth Messrs, Gi G.- Forland ASecretoryV -Waterside Workers' Union)/ O: Q|overv(Ch4lrman Strike Committee), Seal, W. T. Mills and two others, had met to mutually discuss .the situation, ':>'■ The meeting lasted nearly four hours, and, as a last effort to find a way out of the wood for both parties,' one jf the waterside representatives said to Mr. BidweW, you have heard ou»* Bide. "What would you propose as ,v fair oasis of agreement? Don't. >}et our: calk cotno to nothing. Put In writing what you aJx representative men deem to be «* fair thing. We will consider it, and : \ 'it at all reasonable we will submit it to our men and advise them toao- ' ■'[■ ceptit Youon your part must promise to press the employers to do likewise." A' short time subsequently \, the representatives 6f the 'farmers submitted the following as, m their opinion, a fair and equitable basis . of settlement of the present deadlock: 1 1. To last three years. , 2. To contain a clause submitting all disputes on minor points to a Committeo composed of the rqpresonta- '■\ tlvea from each sido In the dispute for their decision, and m the case of their failure, to agree that the point !n dispute be decided by some third party to bo agreed upon by, both committees. 3. That 'm the case of any other Jn- • dustrlal dispute arising which would involve & sympathetic strike on the part of the Waterside Workers' Unions, tho WateraMo .Workers*- Union agree that they will take no action m the matter of a strike, unless the employer or employers m ouch Industrial dispute refuse to subatit the samo to, the decision of an arbitration tribunal similarly formed and constituted as the tribunal to whtch-4hey have agreed to refer their dispute. 4. Work to bo Immediately resumed •tinder tho present agreement. Fato "was ever a scurvy Jade, however. On receiving tho above every mombor representing tho waterslders, ' '' wo aro informed, were of opinion that' the above would bo readily accepted by tho men, and said so to Messrs. Bldweit etc Whother these gentlemen on presenting thsir proposed agreement to tho employers' Informed th.c latter of the assurance given by %r /tho •watcrsido rept, history deponeth Ijß not It fell out that tho employers roto entertain tho basis of agree* Hmont submitted by their allies of tho 'Farmers' Union, ana as their decision ttecamo known boforo the watersldors Mad had an opportunity of considering ' tho proposals, it wan thuasbt unnocos- / »ry for them to do *o. On Friday ovennuj <&*asrn. Young and Scmpto, representing tho U.F.L* placed two proposul* before tho Promier, with ft view to ending tho pro- ' sont hold-up. Number 000 suggested an amendment to tho Trades Union Act, whereby an agrwment could "be registered m tho Magistrate's Court and a ponalty against th«. party com- , jnltllng a broach therorf tuiAj roeoverablo by civil process. Number two asked that tho Arbitration Act bo amended so as to make It Ulogal to start a sccoml union already reglslored under tho Trades Union Act Tho intention of numbrr two was clear, to obvWto for tho futuro tho successfuJ formation of bogus unions In times ot industrial trouble, such as tho present ThoM proposals, though, It 1» ailogod, ftpproved of by Mr. Mass«y. were tnrtiod down by tho Employers' Assolater, tho employers notified tho nross lh«t they would hold no t urthe* Sonforonco« with tho FodomUon o( lAbor on the matter Is dispute. It Is understood ibat futurw attempt at a ftomsromlM will b« ontvtalned ouly it fiomJng direct from >:<h» BxwuUvc of STwj^criidQ Kotumt me** — :