NEW ZEALAND 



five can form a union and register without cost) the law 

 takes effect. 



Any legal labor union (a union registered under The 

 Trade Union Act or the Arbitration Act or both) and any 

 employer or organization of employers may sue and be sued 

 under the Act, but only organizations registered under the 

 Arbitration Act can take part in electing the members of 

 the conciliation boards and the judges, and either party to 

 an industrial dispute may begin proceedings under the Act, 

 after which anythingjin the nature of a lockout or strike 

 becomes unlawful and the business must continue on the 

 old terms until the case is settled. If a strike or lock-out 

 has already begun before application for a hearing, it must 

 stop and all discharged men must be reinstated. All con- 

 cerned, employers, corporations and trade unions can be 

 summoned ; the whole trade in the district can be brought 

 into Court and the decision may be made binding on all 

 employers and all workers, union or non-union, in the in- 

 dustrial district (or even throughout the Colony since 1900) 

 and may be enforced by process against the person or 

 property of a delinquent in the same manner as any other 

 judgment of court. If the workers of any trade remained 

 w^ithout legal organization they could still strike ; or if the}^ 

 disbanded their registered unions on due notice they could 

 strike after existing proceedings and awards ceased to have 

 effect or for a cause, not covered by the award ; or if or> 

 ganized labor and employers both determined to fight the 

 matter to a finish and neither would call the other into 

 court an old time lockout or strike w^ould be possible. 

 None of these things have occured ; strikes and lockouts 

 have practically ceased to exist. 



The w^orkers of New Zealand know they can trust the 

 Government and the judge it selects to be impartial and ex- 

 perience has shown the judgments to be so wise and fair 

 that the Court has the confidence, not only of the workers 

 and the public but of the great majority of the employers 

 ^Iso, 



