INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE
PROTEST BY LABOUR OFFICIALS
(By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day.
A number of Labour officials in Wellington are publishing a protest against the attitude on the Arbitration Act taken up by Mr Roberts in the Industrial • Conference which they hold may be taken to indicate that the labour movement in New Zealand is opposed to compulsory arbitration. They contend that no labour conference of a national character has ever carried a resolution asking for its repeal; that the recent conference at which delegates were chosen did not agree to repeal; that replies to the circular by the Wellington Trades and and Labour Council gave a decision decidedly against it and, that fully 95 per cent of trade unions in New Zealand are not in favour of it. Criticism of the Court in the Dast does not imply that the principle is condemned, hut that an amendment or improvement is desired. The protesters emphasise the fact that there is no justification for the conclusion that unions have declared against compulsory arbitration.
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Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2147, 21 April 1928, Page 4
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