INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION
NEW DEPARTURE IN BRITAIN AN EXPERIMENTAL BILL (British Official Wireless.) Pm| Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. RUGBY, May 5. The provisions of the Government Bill to enable statutory effect to be given to the wage agreements in the cotton manufacturing industry correspond closely with the draft outline unanimously endorsed by a joint deputation of employers and .operatives last month. The Bill is experimental, and represents a new departure in British industrial legislation. It provides that if joint application is made by organisations of employers and workers to the Minister, he must appoint a board to consider the application, and decide whether it is expedient that an order with respect to this agreement should be made. Such order is to be a term ' of contract of employment.
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Evening Star, Issue 21714, 8 May 1934, Page 7
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125INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION Evening Star, Issue 21714, 8 May 1934, Page 7
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