ARGENTINA DEADLOCK.
PENSION LAW PROTESTS. BUSINESS TO BE RESUMED. I ' (Received 12.6 a.m.) Renter." BUENOS AIRES. May 5. On being given' an assurance by, the President, Dr. Marcelo T. de Alvear, that: the Government would do its utmost to rectify the situation in respect 'to the pension law, committees representing the employees and employers recommended their constituents to cease their protest movements—namely, the strike and ; lockout respectively. The employers agreed to reopen their places of business on Tuesday. The workmen are debating the question this evening. While both capital and labour were on strike and demanding a postponement of the application of the pension law, the President announced that he had sent a message ta the United States Congress indicating that he intended to enforce compliance with the law, but proposing amendments designed to meet the objections to i;. The chief complaint is that the law postpones for two years the establishment of <the scheme of benefits, mean while requiring employers and employees to contribute to the fund not' knowing when or in what proportion the employers will gut their money back.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18702, 7 May 1924, Page 9
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