The Australian Pastoralists

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1034, 7 July 1904, Page 2

The Australian Pastoralists

President's Address Attack on Hie Arbitration Court .'rcu iuociatioo.—L'opjritht. SviiNKt, tliia daj ' At tho nunu'il meeting of iho Pastoral') ists Association, Mr. W. E.Abbott, in big presidential address, attacked (ho Parliamentary tactics of tho Labour parties, and said it was clearly their intention to ropont on a larger scale the Now Australia experiment, To effect tin's the Labour unions had been converted into political organiiuimi. Ho declared that tho Arbitration Court was simply an agent of tho Labour Caucus, as tho Court had deputed its almost unlimited power to political associations Masquerading under the name of Labour Unions, while neither tho Government, Parliament, nor pcoplo had any control over tho appointment of irresponsible committees, by which such powers worouscd forpolilical and pecuniary gain,