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ARBITRATION.

How the System Warks in Australia

THURSDAY, JULY 14. 192

of the industrial unions and it in d foult to see how the ravalop ment can be met under the Court system unless several Judges are appointed and the method of pro- cedure is rOCKLE.

COST OF DISORDER TO CHINA.

Some Striking Figures

from Kiangsu,

Tb Court may have, as it has had, 30 ar 40 plaints on its files at Few realize what an enormOUS When Australia committed it-

one time. If a big organization | burden Caina is carrying. As the self to compulsory arbitrationd mands instant settlement under people are occupied daily in des through legal tribunals for the threat of direct action how is its fenting themselves against their settlement at industrial disputes claim to be dealt with except neigh ours and not against the is dreamed that strikes were by giving it pr-vedence.? It outside aggressor, a good govern- Dver. Ordinary conciliation

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under an independant authority to meet anch cases that ment will a good public epi ian secure behind it should do away with 90 bad been a failure; if the award power has was hostile to one of the parties, establish the special tribunals per cent. of the trouble, writes a so that an authority may be Suchien correspondant of the it disregarded it, and the dispate available to take the matter up DN. continued. Labour members of

without delay.

Travellers through this section the more enthusiastic type de-

The experience of the tribunals cannot but be impressed with the clared that the surrender of the has so far been limited, and it is many new fortifiations going up right to strike was the payment impossible to say whether everywhere. Many of these mud the unions made for the compul- they have fulfilled their functions walls are high and well boils and sory form of settlement The

Top not. They have been in aften really made formidable bs. sentiment was cheered. That Bort of sentiment always is cheer-corporated as a part of the Feder- a deep foss,

al arbitration scheme, and they

CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE. ed in Parliamenta. But when are ond more effort to provide Recently we have been trying the right to afrika was challeng-some sort or means so rid the to get some adequate estimate of ed, the doctrine was altogether country of its always throaton- the expenses incurred because of repudiated by members of the fiog strike.

this lawlessness and as a basis same party. There has been no

Probably in the long run it will we have taken Suchien mag. general acceptance of the prin-be found that the Arbitration istracy.

county of about 900 ciple

that the unions have Court answers its purpose best in square miles and 650,000 in- abandoned the strike as a wea- dealing with the multitadinons babaitante, poa. On the contrary, the unions claims which now reach it from

As there are few accurate still strike. The development of less important and less aggressive figures obtainable the following the system of direct action is the bodies than the great unions must be considered as estimates. most aggravated assertion of the Kobody would dispute that in They are, however, made by con- maintenance of the right, and such cases it has been the means servative men of the county. during the war and since it has

of adjusting differences and of The main items are: been applied wherever it has prescribing conditions that bare Repairing the 90 Weitsi baen thought that it would suc- won it the confidence of the caed, states a correspondent in public. With the power practic- the Empire No. of the Times.

Arbitration Courts are still in ally in the hands of one man to settle sil classes of disputes in all operation in the States as well as classes of industries, there has in the Federation. But even in naturally arisen the outery that cases where a strike is illegal its authority in legislative rather and a heavy penalty is imposed than judicial There is power. for either & striker look-out however, for assessors to be ap the law in all serious cases is a pointed to sit with a Judge if the nullity. Great unions of thon-

of this right.

sands of men may respect the Parties are agreeable, and possibly law or they may not. If they do the future there may be not, a penalty would be a mockers. tendency to take more advantage because they would take no notice of it; it is impossible to cast thousands of men into gaol, and as the men know it they have no apprehension that the panishment will be attempted.

CIVIL SERVANTS, Parliament has recently remov-Į

ed from the jurisdiction of the Court claims by the Federal Civil Service for increases in pay and so forth The authority is now vasted in a special arbitrator, who will devote his time to service demanda Access to the Court

mud fortifications an- nually

$31,000

Annual cost of mainten- ance of 1,500 regular soldiers, provincial tax 180,000 Annual cost

of local guards 100 cash a man 277,000 New guns (4 of $650,000

worth) this year

150,000 100 new guard bouses 20,000 Cartridges and powder 40,000 Taxes levied in towns

for soldiers extras Taxes levied i cities for

soldiers' extras

Homes burnt by soldier

and robbers (Hundreds) Ransoms paid for the captured. An 0307- mons sum probably equal to all other items combined

Loss of time and strength

→everybody in_county keeping watch and mang sleeping out Loss because men of means are prisoners in tops

? $690,000

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SPECIAL TRIBUNALS. The Federal Government has obtained power to appoint Special Tribunals to deal with cases was originally given to Civil ser-Loss of lite. Thres which the Federal Court bas vants by the Labour Party 10

figures? difficulty in handling promptly-obriste the pestering to which Loss of time to wounded These tribunais were possible members were subjected by ser and friends under the War Precautions Act,vice unions and individual public and were made use of. The Pre-officers. The evil of the incon- sident of the Arbitratin Courtvenience has not been removed his resented the interference of by transferring the power to the the Government with his fance Court; if the Civil servants dof tings and is to resign when cases not get what they want from the which he has already begun are Court they besiege members of ished. The intention of the Parliament. And members of Special Tribunals is

to-meet Parlament, recognizing that the emergency cases, cases suddenly public officers, especially those in aising in great and vital indus the postal and its lied services, ties where direct action basare a powerful body, are not slow le ther began or is threatened. to back them up. The members

A far-reaching dispute in the approached are usually ic opposi- tabulate. But the same thing is coal trade was settled by ation, and oppositions are always true of every county in this part special tribunal. The Broken sympathetic to movements that of China. So then for Chins the Hill miners' strike was settled by promise to harass the Govern-total loss each year must run the same means. There has been ment.

toward the billion mark.

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a special tribunal in the Federal Only last year, when there had $100,000,000 spent by the tuchans Government's shipbuilding enter-been a failure to secure all that is hardly a tithe of the actual lo-s. prise. It is contended that the was sought from the Arbitration The remedies proposed for this system has worked well. The Court, Civil servants" organiza state of things are as various ay other side of the story is that the tions demanded that an expected the proposers. There is littla 10 i system has been successful by decision of a basic wage comission | be gained by incriminating one surrendering to the men on should be applied to them.class.

All seem to be out for. virtually all their claims. How They sent hundreds of what they can get out of it; and far the accusation of the oppon-telegrams simultaneously from are marking the goods to all they

quarters to mem-will carry. may depend on the point of view;bers of the opposition. insisting There are many good men, JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the it is undoubted that the men on the concessions before they men who apparently are const digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during have gained considerable con- knew what they were to be. The infected with the germ of selfish- Hot Weather; (2) LACTOSE (MIE Sugat) for sweetening the food-cessions. The public on its side members of the opposition did pess, but they are not in power

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A judgment of the High Court Success" sbows clearly where In the coalmines' dispute the has raised the question whether the trouble lies. And beloved men were given substantial rises State instrumentalities are Do Queen Victoria was not backward in wages and other advantages; subject to Federal jurisdiction in saying where the foundations the tribunal equalized the con- the Court, when differently coo-of British prosperity were laid- cassions for the employers by stituted, took the contrary view. in loyalty to the word of God. increasing the price of coal. The If the popolar interpretation of

NEW CULT OF SPIRITUALISU public therefore paid, as it does the judgment should be affirmed In this connection it will in in all these cases, but it pail when a specific case arises, as it

terest the general reader to know both directly and indirectly. It must sooner or later, the au-that spiritualism is now finding had to meet higher bills for its thority of the States over their enormous and influential foll domestic requirements in coal own enterprises will be seriously lowing in China. Idolatry in its and gas, and then to pay increas-diminished. Whether the hisbil-cruder forms seeins doomed, but ed fares later on the railways,ity to strikes will be reduced this consulting of spirits through which are, of course, heavy nobody would venture to predict, mediums by means of words writ coal consumers. The Govern especially in Australia, where ten in sand is in vozue from Pe- meat was appealed to in two the right to strike is a privilege king through Shantung and this disputes this year to establish that the onions will not forfeit province. Even the smallest ham Special Tribunals in the hope that The shipping strike, which for the sake of avoiding or settl paralysed a great industry, lost lets have halls fitted up for con- gregations. Its davotees are sup ing a strike the meh would be thousands of men and women posed to spend time each day in granted what they wanted. But their employment, and threw the

meditation. They give a scriptare! this was not the real purpose of transport service of the Common to the faithful and publish other the tribunals. In each instance wealth into utter confusion literature. They are spoken of as the application was refused. treated with contempt an award belonging to the Sz Chisi Tan. The appointment of the special of the Federal Arbitration Court. It is an eclectic cult that is filling tribunals has been extremely dis Tasteful to the President of the Federal Arbitration Court. The charge against the Court is that

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JUDGE AND BIKERJET. HOURS the delays in reaching a hearing of the Court of Session, unveiled THE"" OVER-PAID PROFESSION.

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