A Presidential Address.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1054, 30 July 1904, Page 3

A Presidential Address.

Tlie Tyranny of Labour. Pmm A'«owM!<;M.-o!)pjrißbt. HrnNiY, tnia dior. The President of tho Chamber of Com-. mercc, referring in his annual address to preferential trado, said his conception of it was that it was contrary to tho interests of tho Commonwealth. Ho did not boliovo it would ever bo acceptod by tho Australian people In dealing with arbitration he declared that tho legislative a.inals weie debased by tho Arbitration Act, which, besides permitting in legalised form the grossest intcrfefercncc with the r'ght of men to manage their own business, hnd given effect lo « solush passion for individual aggrandisement, andassistod in tho conversion of trade orgnnisation into a political force, Tho labouring cninniunily had professed a desire that all should be on equal terms, and yet they had suc» cecdf-d in obtaining legislation which had fronted the gaoatest inequality and in. justice Honest, capable men, who. from an indepedent spirit or lack of financial uieims, continued outsido tho ranks of Unionism, woro all deprived of tho right to work at all, and punishinont fell upon those who otnployod them,