LABOUR QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 9

LABOUR QUESTION

TO THE EDITOR. , Sir, —As the public is much interested in the various Labour disputes arising from time to time, I wish to submit some principles upon which these matters might be dealt with. The thoughts I have to present are put in the form of an Industrial Charter, which I think, if accepted both by employers and ■workers, would" prevent a. good deal of serious trouble. This charter affirms certain definite rights, and ako duties,, which ought to prove an all-round protection. .The rights of free' organisation, of conference and appeal, would fairly safe- 1 guard the workers. On the other hand, the duties of "submission to fair inquiry and judgment on matters in dispute, of honourably recognising the • validity and binding nature of contracts made, and lastly the admission of the justice of safeguarding the public against sudden outbreaks, seem to me proposals which all fair-minded people would endorse. I will be well pleased if the labour unions and the employers' associations will consider thie charter and let the public know whether it is such as they can fully endorse.—l am, etc., ' FABIUS.