RIGHT TO STRIKE.
TRADES HALL ATTITUDE. ' MELBOURNE, February 12. In a. statement on the Crimea BilLnow before Parliament, the president of the Trades Hall Council, Mr. E. A. Painter, defined the official Trades Hall attitude. Trade unionism, he said, was rapidly' approaching a form of organisation in which the strike weapon would--be. regarded: as obsolete- "But we can never and' never will give up our inalienable right to strike, providing that all other methods are abortive," he added. "No law aimed at this right will be We •win resist any such force with th& wholfr power of our industrial machinery. The bi& is a direct incentive: to disorder. It will precipitate maiiy far-reaching , jdispntes, which will adversely, affect -the interests of the Connnonwealthi Already the industrial movement is burning , with. i indignation." _■__ _y, '
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1926, Page 9
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