NO APPEAL TO COURT
I.C. AND A. ACT TO STAND
STATEMENT BY MR. FORBES
A definite statement that it is not the intention of the Government to amend the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act in order to give unions the right to approach the Court for a general order increasing wages was made to "The Post" today by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes).
"I have already expressed the view that it is the duty of those firms in a position to do so to increase wages," said Mr. Forbes, "and I notice that one firm has already made a move. No doubt others will follow suit. At the same time there are many private firms which are not yet in a position to improve the wages of their employees, and to compel them to do so by a genoral order of the Court would be most unfair. The Government has no intention of doing that."
It is understood that a deputation representing the Labour movement will shortly interview the Prime Minister on the subject.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 10
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178NO APPEAL TO COURT Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 10
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