THE BROKEN HILL AWARD.
The award and the extreme views expressed in the course of its delivery are calculated to excite employees m other mining, districts, and to discourage the opening of fresh propositions. From this point of view the award may prove to be a national calamity. But there is no right of appeal. The judge, sitting alone, without the existence of experts, can order the payment of any rate of wages he pleases in all cases falling under the jurisdiction of his Court.' His views on political economy and on labor problems may be faulty and illogical, out he can make binding awards. The industrial life of a whole oontinment is practically under the government of one man, who may or may not be sufficiently well informed to grapole with the difficult problems that are occasioned, by discord between employers and workmen. —“Economist.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2548, 8 July 1909, Page 7
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145THE BROKEN HILL AWARD. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2548, 8 July 1909, Page 7
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