LABOUR'S DEMANDS.
EMPLOYEES NOT SLAVES, BUT
PARTNERS.
"THE RIGHT TO STRIKE."
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Oct. 20. Mr Smillie, at Bristol, said that the miners claimed and intended to have a fair share of the oxocutivo control of the mines.
Mr Harry Gosling said that ho was not prepared again to confer with the employers unless the latter realised that an employeo was no longer a slave but a partner. Ho added that arrangements wore being perfected to workmen a better chanco of fighting in futuro, including feeding them and their families by cooperative societies. Robert Williams, at Newport, said that the Government and employers could make up their minds that the workers would not accept any reduction in their earnings. Mr J. H. Thomas emphasised that the right to strike was Libour's greatest bargaining power, which could not bo relinquished. The railwaymen requested a share in the management of the railways and he invited tho Government to consider tho proposal. The railwaymcn's request was on the ground that they could contribute experience, brains and capacity to the management of tho railways which would be valuable to tho whole country.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1655, 22 October 1919, Page 5
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