THE INDUSTRIAL PERIL.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15238, 27 March 1915, Page 9

THE INDUSTRIAL PERIL.

AGREEMENT WITH THE engineers, limitation of profits. dockers' Criminal attitude. soldiers deprived of munitions. LONDON, March 25. If. is officially announced that a representative of the Treasury and a-re-presentative of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers have adopted an agreement securing tho limitation of profits to firms engaged in war purposes, any benefits arisin;: from the relaxation of trade union restrictions to accrue to the Stale, The relaxation is confined to the lieriod of the war. Tho Government is prepared, on tlie workmen's demand, to certify whether work is required for war purposes. The Government will also use its influence after tho war to secure tho" restoration to labour of tho conditions existing prior, |p,the war. "The committee of tho General Federation of Trade Unions is petitioning the Government to stop Sunday labour wherever possible, owing to breakdown among the workers due to overstrain, particularly amongst girls. Tlie resolution embodying the plea adds:—"Men must put aside industrial disputes." The executive of the National Union of Dock Labourers has issued a manifesto on the refusal of the minority of the Liverpool labourcVs to work on week-ends, adding that the congestion has actually prevented the distributionof munitions to the troops in the trenches during the past week. Unless the disaffected members fall into line the majority of the body outside th© union will adopt drastic measures to the union's detriment.