ARBITRATION BILL
STRONG OPPOSITION WOULD KILL CONFIDENCE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 7. Claiming to represent 54,000 unionists, Janies Roberts, secretary of the Alliance of Labour, gave evidence before the Labour Bills Committee today on the Arbitration Amendment Bill. He was instructed to enter an objection against all the clauses of the Bill, which was preventive and would cause unnecessary industrial strife. It would kill all confidence in the arbitration system. It will .JIl collective bargaining and would result in sweating. The farmers would find that they had drawn a blank in the political lottery. His idea was that casual assessors were impracticable.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19992, 8 November 1927, Page 6
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103ARBITRATION BILL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19992, 8 November 1927, Page 6
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