REPUDIATED

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 7

REPUDIATED

GO«SLOW PROPOSALS LABOUR EXECUTIVE TAKES ACTION ; (MItW HIM? ASIOCIATTON.—CSriRISBI.) (Received 26th Augnst, noon.) . SYDNEY, This Day, ! The Australian; Labour Party Executive has officially repudiated the go-slow proposals, enunciated by, the Labour Council. * [A conference in Sydney of ttftion secretaries adopted a scheme cf jrritfttion strikes and go-slow, with a view to reducing production in retaliatk«i for reduction of wages and the contemplated reveraion to tie forty-eight^hour week. Detailed .instructions were prescribed for individual industries, such as that butchers' shop aseistants' would be expected to notify customers of defects in the goods, and/factory hands were urged to refuse to adulterate various articles and foodstuffs, and otherwise to expose trade secrete. The recommendation was described as having originated! only with the unions affiliated with the Labour Council. Several non-affiliated unions repudiated the scheme, and a special meeting of the unkm secretaries directed Mr. Garden, of the Labour Council, to issue a statement absolving them from complicity in. it. Subsequently the t N«w .South Wales Lftbour Council adopted the report ' recommending \he go-slow scoeme.] ' .. ' ~ ■ .. ; . / >■