PROTESTS AGAINST COERCIVE BILL.
[press association.] (Received April 1, 8.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 1. The Trades Union Congress adopted a resolution emphatically protesting against Mr Waclo's coercive Industrial Disputes Amendment Act of 1909, and pledging itself to mako every effort to return Labor members at the next election. Thoy had sufficient numbers to liave the amended Act repealed and the Industrial Disputes Act itself amended so as to bo ' suitable ko the workers. Another resolution was carried that tho Congress favors obtaining its ideals and redressing its grievances by constitutional methods, and is of opinion that strikes should only be resorted to when every possible hope of ■conciliation has failed. The supporters of the motion urged that past experience had proved that it was futile to expect the redress of grievances by a resort to strikes. Tho ballot-box was the only channel through which it was possible to achieve their ideals:
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 1 April 1910, Page 8
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151PROTESTS AGAINST COERCIVE BILL. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 1 April 1910, Page 8
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