THE ARBITRATION ACT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11948, 6 March 1917, Page 3

THE ARBITRATION ACT.

I ___ i ' TO THS EDITCm. ] ci ri „v,"i{hin the, past iY-v <h?> n confi rerice h>.:.U\f\rit r(-)vwrA.:.dhes of tho i ."n;«! minors and the initio owners was Ih. id nv. Wellington- The result wna i i abortive, the raeetinoc ending in a vleadjlock. The reason vt by the mine own- ■ or-; peremptorily rr-iorfed the men's j •demands 's koo.fnm- » k tv-y can rely upon j an asvurd in then- favour '.vhen the disIputo i« referred to the Arbitration! 'f'eorv. In ms'.anoc when the I Cnuematson I'Vanoil i-oeonuuemi •ioj j award in tho worker*' favour fiio wn-j I pioyors rejert it, knowinc; thai- an up j pe.ai to the Court will end' in their fav\'rmr. Shioe. the of the Act i the violation of awards by the on>- ! plovers as compared with the workers has boon in a ratio of three io one. For tbfdr uifivroUoos the. unions hrcyo boon mulcted in largo sums, whilo merely nominal finos have been inHint- j r-r] upon the employer?. The Ayr. pro- j j rides for knpri.sonnont for strikes, hut jthere is, nothing in it. ap;amsf look-outs, I oxT-ept a meaningless ivellor of legal I lof-'h.nica.Htics ihsii any hush 'unvycr oan ; /evade- The Act is a device de:-,igue<l j I to shackle labour and koep vnio,-s low. j It: must bo swept, into the backwash of j j oblivion.—l sin. etc., { Man.k b\ ICONOCLAST. |