INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1257, 12 October 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL.

$ BOARD OF TRADE SCHEME. INTERESTING LABOUR EXPERIMENT IN BRITAIN. By Teloffraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. October 11, 0.35 p.m.) London, October 11. After consulting a number of representatives of employers and workmen, the Board of Trado lnus established an industrial council of 20 members to inquire into trado disputes. Tho council will bo comprised of an equal number of employers and members will hold office for a year. Tho council will havo no compulsory powers. Members representing tho shipping, mining, metal, printing, railway, cotton, engineering, building, textile, transport, and other trades havo already been approached, with Sir Cieorgo Askwith, head of tho labour Department of the Board of Trade, as chairman. The members include Mr. T. L. Devitt, the presidents of various masters asso-1 ciations, and Messrs. A. Henderson, T. Burt, M.P.'s, and other leading trade union officials. LABOUR DISPUTES. A LOCK-OUT AVOIDED. London, October 10. The lock-out that was threatened at the Gatefield Mill, Burnley, Lancashire, where the operatives gave notice of their intention to go out o.wing to the Tofusal of two non-unionists to join the union, has been avoided, the non-umonists agreeing to join the union. ENGINEERS ON STRIKE. The Hague, October 10. The engineers on forty trawlers have struck for an increase of pay. MOUNT LTELL STRIKE. (Rec. October 12, 0.25 a.m.) Hobart, October 11. The Mount Lyell Mining Company has intimated t'hat it will meet delegates from tho Employers' Association in confcreneo in connection with tho strike.