"OBVIOUS" TO WHOM ?

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 133, 8 June 1931, Page 8

"OBVIOUS" TO WHOM ?

When unions are smarting under wage adjustment measures they may be excused some extravagance in their expressions of condemnation. Even making such allowance, however, the resolution of the Trades and Labour Council goes beyond the bounds of reasonable criticism. The Council considers that the Arbitration Court judgment is

more an instruction from the Government than a consideration of the arguments put forward by the workers' representatives, and iv recognition of this obvious political manipulation of the Court, it calls upon all unionists and wage-earners to continue tho fight by strengthening their own political organisation, which 'is tho Labour Party, in.an effort to become the Government " after tho next General Election: ;

The allegation made, that the Court has decided not on reason tut. under political pressure, could not be made by any person who read with intelligent understanding the thorough and judicial review of the facts by Mr. Justice Frazer, unless that reader were incurably prejudiced. The Trades Council has not merely charged the Court 'with error, but with error so.gross that it reveals "obvious political manipulation." Such unfair and extravagant charges will not help the Trades Council's case. But worse than this is the implication to be taken from the exhortation to unionists and wageearners. There has been "obvious political manipulation" of the Court by the Government." Therefore the workers are urged to return a Labour Government. With what aim—unless it be to furnish a Court which dares to deliver a judgment of which the Trades and Labour Council does not approve? . ;.