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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9223, 30 April 1908, Page 1

ment and the country responsive, for both recognise the deficiencies of the present plan of appointment and are anxious to provide a better one. — Dunedih "Star." THE BLACKBALL SITUATION. If thfl miners should eventually wring from the Blackball Company, through a persistence in the methods they have deliberately pursued, a concession of the conditions which they have imposed, a direct encouragement will be offered to other unions that are riot less unfavourably circumstanced than the Blackball Mineos' Union is to follow its example and tearing up the Industrial, Conciliation, and Arbitration Act, and the awai'ds of the Arbitration Court, to resort to foTce in order to bring the employers to terms. No one who realises what the possible effects of a triumph on the part of the Blackball miners may be can fail to agree that their conduct demanded strenuous unyielding opposition. For this reason, the pliant submission of the company is much to be de-^ plored. — "Otago Daily Times."