THE AIMS OF LABOR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10518, 28 July 1910, Page 1

THE AIMS OF LABOR.

By Telegraph. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellintrten, Jnly_27. A deputation representing the Labor Councils interviewed (lie Vrcmicr and the Hon. J. A. Miliar to-day to bring under the notice of the Government the resolutions' passed at the recent conference in Auckland. The Hon. .). T. Paul emphasised the. ■necessity for preventing the growth of trusts and combines. , Mr G. J. Carey r.aid, though tlrgro had been an outcry against the Arbitration Act, the Trade l Councils were not yet prepared to throw it over, but suggested an amendment. The President of the Court had administered the Act with unconscious bias, but it was not sugucsted that the maladministration had been deliberate.

Sir Joseph Ward said the Government was introducing an Anti-Trust Bill, and it scorned peculiar that they should he iiryecl to do what already had been done. Nationalisation was not possible in many cases, as it meant huge borrowing: to the extent cf which it was not practicable to jro. This legislation would be introduced after the financial debate was over: The 'Premier did not ascreo.with the proposal to again give the "Arbitration Court the sole right to deal with lireach.ee of an award.