ARBITRATION AND STRIKES.
NO PALLIATIVE YET KNOWN. AN AUTHORITY'S CONCLUSION. ALWAYS PERSONAL EQUATION. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 0.30 a.m.) , LONDON. May 16. Mr. James Wignall, M.P., national organiser of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside , ,»and General Workers' Union, addressing , the National Alliance of Employers, said , he found as a result of personal investi- , gation that Australian and New Zea- , land compulsory arbitration had a great , defect—it did not prevent strikes and lockouts, despite any assurances to the contrary. " ' He visited two coal centres and found ] all hands on strike in one place and a j lock-out at the other. The system failed , when it encountered big problems such as those of mining and other large industries. Of course it is impossible to put ' ten thousand men in gaol. Arbitration had good points, but noth- ' ing yet'had been invented to eliminate the danger of strikes and lockouts. —(A. _ and N.Z. Cable.) , I ==g f
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 7
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