Report of the British Economic Mission to Australia

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Identifikator:: 179824683X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-182286

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the British Economic Mission to Australia

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 7th January 1929

Scope:: 63 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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<ind which they supply are effectively protected, by acquiring snowledge of the openings which exist for them through visits to Australia of the heads of firms or responsible representatives, by the employment of competent and well-paid agents and travellers, and by using to the full the services of the admirable organization astablished for their benefit in Australia under the British Trade Commissioner. 61. We have observed in an earlier passage in this report that the effects of the protective tariff and of the wages and conditions of labour fixed by decisions under the Arbitration Acts are inti- mately infer-related, and it is incumbent upon us to offer such dbservations as we have to make upon the latter subject. 62. In every capital city of Australia we have had the advantage of meeting the leaders of the Trade Union movement. We have been much struck by the strength of that movement, reinforced as it doubtless is by the homogeneity of the people and by the active and intelligent interest which they take in all matters affecting their welfare. We have had frank and interesting discussions with the leaders of the movement; and we have found that practically on every occasion the subject of the Arbitration Acts and of the Courts established thereunder has come up during the course of these discussions. By workmen's representatives, not less emphatically than by representatives of the employers, it has been consistently represented to us that the Arbitration Courts are not achieving their purpose and that a system designed to arrive by judicial decisions at fair and prompt settlement of industrial dis- putes such as could be freely accepted by both sides must be held ‘o have failed. 63. The most important of the reasons which have been ad- vanced for this view are that experience has shown that there arises between the two parties who appear before the Arbitration Court Judge or Arbitrator the spirit of antagonism inseparable from litigation, and that the object of prompt settlement is defeated by the delay occasioned by the necessity for the collection and presentation of detailed evidence in a form acceptable to a Court. [t is complained that the procedure of the Court occasions the expenditure of much time and money by the litigants and involves very long absences from their ordinary occupations for a large number of persons whose time might be more profitably employed ; that the subject matter of the questions which are brought before she Courts is not of a nature with which judicial tribunals, neces- sarily unversed in the practical problems of industry or in the sconomic questions to which they give rise, are best fitted to deal; and that the overlapping jurisdictions of the Federal and State Arbitration Courts have led to an almost inextricable tangle of conflicting decisions so complicated that large staffs have to be maintained to keep track of them and to endeavour to guard against involuntary contravention of any of them in the course of everv-dayv business. The Arbitra- tion Acts.

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