UNIONISTS AND NON-UNIONISTS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12508, 8 April 1909, Page 3

UNIONISTS AND NON-UNIONISTS.

EMPLOYERS? DECIiARA^riON. 3 STRENTJOUS OPPOSITION- TO PREFERENCE. , - [TJOTTED PiIESSAsSOOTATION.] r Wellington, April 7. At' a meeting of the advisory board - of the New Zealand Employers'-Fed-c eration the following resolution . .was - unanimously carried:— "Whereas, the - Arbitration Courb has- in various^ industrial disputes, granted a inodined. form., of pre/erence. to -members,: 'of : 'union of workers,- which ha,s; 7not : been actively opposed-by : the -employ-;, ers, although they have "at all- times insisted upon their rights to engage workers T)est qualified to: perform the Tt'ork required, oi /them, 1 and ihe ArW.tration : Court having recently shown a dispositioJa. to impose upqn_ employers : much » greater '- responsibility in regard to the employment of ; workers^ than has been cast upon them previously . : and the President of the Court haying intimated that in his opinion, it is the duty of employers to refuse to employ workers unless they-be- ? come members of union's, the advisory board of the New Zealand Employ- ' ers' Federation, after having consult- * ed all the^BUiated bodies'; desires "to r - publicly- intimate that ;the -employers 8 of this.i Dominion doj-and always will, relent '" -and^ oppose -to ; ;. their-^utmost any ' Attempt to; restrict' "their undeniable right to select their workmen, '■■■: or .po compel them.; to iforce)- 'unwill- : ing .workers into- unions; -v Further ■* in7 ; view7bf the7aboye' facts^arid' the '. 'danger iof'furthef : restrictions* being ". imposed by; -the:T Arbitration ■)'■; Court, ;th"is idvispry r board' strongly urges ) all employers of labour to streniious- • ly oppbse the inplusibn of 'preference „ to • unionists. ; cla'uses . in .... all. .^future awards and indiistrialv agreements. 7