TO END LABOUR TROUBLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 60, 11 March 1915, Page 5

TO END LABOUR TROUBLES.

STATE TAKING CHARGE.

DRASTIC, HUT NECESSARY.

LONDON, March 10,

Bcferring,in the House, of Commons* to the.Government's proposal to organise !the engineering industry, Mr. LloydGeorge said that the additional powers sought were to help the employers out of the difficulties which they might experience if they were called on to throw [ their all into the common stocks Mr. Bonar Law said that the" powers sought were i the most drastic -ever 6ubjinitted to the House of Commons. If these tremendous powers were abused it would do incalculable-harm to'the'couh- ; try's industries. Hie was not prepared' to oppose the proposal, but must assist in giving the Government the fullest power over the country's resourcesV Mr. J.- Hodge, a Labour' member,' said. t Bat; the bUlgave effect to Labour's eollectiyist ideas. He suggested...that the workmen, as well as the employers, should be consulted in regard to details. The, unrest- of -the- war-ammunition workers was due to the- Government's unconscionable -delay in settling indue-. trial disputes..