INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 September 1921, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

METHODS OF SETTLEMENT

NEW MACHINERY NEEDED

BY CABEE—PXESS ASSOCIATION-^gOPYEIGHI GENEVA, Sept. 9. • :,. The Trade Union Congress debated -. the resolution of the' Iron and Steel Trade 3 Confederation deploring the present conduct of industrial disputes, } and demanding machinery by which, i "before the stoppage of work in any industry, the merits of the dispute -, should be put before the whole move- - anent. Though the resolution was de- - feated by 5,628,000 to 981,000 votes, it is significant that almost a million votes were in favour of a' policy oi '- settlement without strikes. Mr. Arthur Pagh, in moving the - motion, said that not one per cent, of strike.-- rere i'-tstined'by'results. The riic'-.'5; 'vvaity U» the unions was being

- Ai: nrur- 'r'-n.i-e vilowed the miners' " leader reternng to the manner in which ' the Triple Alliance had let them down' '■ during the recent strike. ( The chief objection to the resolution -= -was -that- it -made a-rapid strike impossible.