How ordinary members are appointed. Appointed by minister on recommendation of industrial court. Nominated by min ister; but if one- By employers and employees, respectively. By governor on nomination of employers and employees respectively. Appointed by gov- By governor in council on nomination by employers and employees. President appointed by governor general from justices of high court for a term of 7 years. ployers and workers, respectively. court on com public health. plaint of any By inspectors of fac- By factories depart- By arbitration By department of tories and shops, department of labor. 12 months, and thereafter until altered by board or court, ment. Until altered by board or by order of industrial court. To the court of industrial appeals. To industrial court. Industrial court. Yes; for not more than 12 months. Yes; for not more than 3 months. Yes. party to the award, or registrar or an industrial inspector. For period fixed by court, not excedeing 3 years, or for 1 year and thenceforward from year to year un til 30 days' no tice given. By proceedings instituted by registrar, or by any organization affected, or a member thereof. No appeal except To supreme court. No appeal; case may against impris onment or a fine exceeding £20. No suspension; Yes. Court has pow- be stated by president for opinion of high court. No appeal. Can preference to Yes. No. No. No. No. No.. Yes; ordinarily optional, but mandatory if in opinion of court preference is necessary for maintenance of industrial peace or welfare of society. XII. OPERATION OF AUSTRALASIAN LEGISLATION. The following tables set forth the industrial disputes which have occurred in Australia, the number of wage earners involved, and the estimated losses in working days and wages during the years 1913 and 1914;1 Industrial disputes in the Commonwealth, classified according to industrial groups, 1913 and 1914. Industrial disputes in each State and Territory-Comparative particulars for 1914. 1913. £363,326 £43,747 £13,176 £7,697 £70,552 £1,459 £170 £348 £208,468 £32,596 £37,684 £1,029 £5,615 £434 £600 £1,675 £500, 475 £288, 101 1 Official Yearbooks of the Commonwealths of Australia and New Zealand. Boards authorized and constituted, awards, determinations, and agreements in 1 Excluding special demarcation boards. 17 10 4 19 50 63 41 109 54 8 1 156 12 6 168 121 179 16 82 57 96 2 In New South Wales 21 boards were dissolved owing to alterations in the sectional arrangement of industries and callings. In Victoria 1 board was superseded by 3 boards. In Queensland, authorization for 1 board was subsequently rescinded. 3 In al lition, 5 awards and determinations had been made, but had not come into operation on the 31st of December, 1914. Of that number 4 were in Queensland (including 2 which were suspended pending the hearing of appeals), and 1 in Victoria. The figures are exclusive of awards and determinations which had expired by effluxion of time, and had not been renewed on the 31st of December, 1914. 4 Including 1 award made by the industrial court under section 7 of the industrial peace act, 1912, for an industry not under an industrial board. 5 Including 7 awards made by the industrial court. Including an in lustrial agreement declared by the industrial court, under section 40 of the industrial arbitration act 1912, to be a common rule for the timber industry in the southwest industrial division. 7 Not available. Of 337 disputes in 1914 only 29 were settled by the machinery of State or Federal industrial acts. A majority were by private negotiation. Wage earners lost £850,000 through strikes during 1914 and 1915, according to the Commonwealth statistician. In 1915, according to the report of the secretary of labor, New Zealand had one woolen-mill strike, involving 233 operatives, and six strikes of steamship and wharf labor. OPERATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND LAW.1 The following statement shows in a summary form the cases which came before the arbitration court and conciliation councils of New Zealand during the fiscal year ended March 31, 1915: Industrial agreements. Recommendations of conciliation councils_ Enforcement of awards (cases conducted by labor department) A total of 330 cases for the enforcement of awards were also brought before magistrates during the same fiscal year. For the same year the number of industrial disputes brought to the attention of the conciliation commissioners was 101. Of this number 61 were settled by mutual agreement, 23 were partly adjusted, and 17 were wholly referred to the court of arbitration. These facts are set forth in tabular form below: Industrial disputes dealt with by conciliation commissioners and councils during the year ended Mar. 31, 1915. Number of strikes outside the act__ As to strikes, the following is a summary of strikes in New Zealand from the inception of the industrial conciliation and arbitration act (1894) to March 31, 1915: Number of strikes coming within scope of the act_. 53 95 Total number of strikes__ 2148 Number of disputes included in total which may be classed as trivial or unimportant 52 32 17, 317 £1,933 Average duration of all strikes (trivial cases not included) (days). Total amount collected to date___ £1, 549 Only five lockouts have occurred since the New Zealand legislation was put into operation. 1 The data as to the operation of the New Zealand laws have been compiled from the New Zealand Year Book for 1915 and preceding years. 2 Of this total, 31 strikes were of slaughtermen, consisting of two separate sympathetic disputes, one in 1906-7 and the other in 1912-13, spread over practically the whole of the Dominion. Six were within the scope of the act and 25 outside it. 3 In three other cases the employers were not involved. |