INDUSTRIAL AWARDS.
EMPLOYERS’ PASSIVE RESISTANCE. ATTITUDE MAY BE ABANDONED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug, 29. The possibility of the employers' abandoning their usual attitude of passive resistance in regard to industrial disputes was mentioned by Mr A. M. Burns, acting president of the Canterbury Employers’ Association in the course of an address at the annual meeting last night. “No one can scarcely hoJ>e , , ,, isaid Mir Burns', “that workers’ organisation® are, or ever will be, satisfied with what they have managed to secure. In some cases the unions have refused to recognise any factors other than their own desires, and it is a question as to whether the employer® should not in such cases take the offensive and file claims embodying conditions less restrictive to the enterprise. There is a large body of opinion which helioves that the only hope the employers have of ever securing relief from narrxussing conditions which are contained in some awards lies in xifoaaidontng the too common attitude of passive resistance.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 29 August 1928, Page 4
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