CONTROL OF MAN-POWER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 134, 7 June 1940, Page 7

CONTROL OF MAN-POWER

OPERATIVE JUNE 10

BRITISH REGULATIONS

LONDON, June 5

The Minister of Labour, Mr. Bevin, announcing drastic regulations to control man-power in the coal-mining agriculture, building, and engineering industries, said on behalf- of the Government that he could give an absolute assurance that the regulations would be withdrawn as soon as victory was

assured.

The regulations, which become operative on June 10, prohibit, employers engaging men except through the employment exchange or an approved trade union and prevent the engagement in any other capacity of men normally employed in coalmining, agriculture, forestry, or horticulture. ■'■■•'.

With the object of preventing trade disputes developing into strikes or lock-outs, the consultative committee of the British Employers' Confederation and the Trade Union Congress submitted a number of recommendations to Mr. Bevin, simultaneously announcing publicly that "in this period of national emergency it is imperative that there be no stoppage of-work as the result of trade disputes." The recommendations urge the continuance of the existing machinery to deal with wages and conditions, but if disputes cannot be settled in this way they shall be referred to arbitration and the decision shall be binding on all parties without strikes or lockouts. Cases where there is no provision for arbitration shall be submitted to the Minister, who shall fix a time-limit and refer them to the national arbitration tribunal.