CoDciliation and Arbitration.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4830, 20 December 1893, Page 1

CoDciliation and Arbitration.

Efforts are being made in the pottery trade of Staffordshire to establish a Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. The North Staffordshire Chambar of Commerce haa the scheme in hand, which has been submitted to some of the men, and, it is stated!, haa bean received with some favour. It will shortly be placed in a formal manner before the manufacturers and Trades Council of the district for their consideration. The proposed scheme is aa follows:—Each trade in the district is to form a separate Labour Conciliation , Committee composed of representative men in its own branch, half of which are to be employers and half workmen, the latter to be balloted for by fcheir resDective bodies. It ia hoped by means of these Boards dealing with Labour matters, that practical conciliation will be effected in less important disputes between Capital and Labour. For the more serious class o£ Labour disputes, ho we per, a Court of Appeal, as it were, is to be afforded by a Central Committee, composed of members elected by the various branches, and what is to be called the North Staffordshire Conciliation and Arbitration Board, which committee is to be strengthened by two outsiders in the shape of the President of the Chamber of Commerco and a delegate to be chosen from some Trades Union. If this second tribunal should cob prove successful aa a peacemaker, every facility is to be given for the bringing about of arbitration.