LABOUR IN TRINIDAD.
CAUSE OF RECENT UNREST. LONDON, Feb. 28. A Labour motion in the House of Commons to reduce the vote for the Colonial Office for the purpose of debating the report of the Trinidad Commission was defeated by 194 votes to 101. , Labour members contended that the miserably low wages were the real cause of the disturbances in Trinidad. The Colonial Secretary (Air AV. Ormsby-Gorc) declared that collective bargaining between Labour and Capital °was the only way of solving the wage problem. The Board of G rade investigator had been instructed that it was vital that there should be properly organised trade unions in Trinidad, and machinery for the adjustment of wages and conditions of labour, as this question was likely tohecome more and more prominent throughout the Colonial Empire.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 9
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132LABOUR IN TRINIDAD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 9
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