INDUSTRIAL UNREST
UNIONIST COMMITTEE’S REPORT. LONDON, June 15. The Unionist Committee on Industrial Unrest, after two years’ investigation, recommends a Department of Labour, under a Chief Commissioner, the latter to be invested with power- to intervene in a strike and to appoint a* Board of Conciliation. Anyone breaking an agreement sanctioned by the commissioner shall lose the certainty of a fixed wage. Legal sanction should be given to masters and v kers’ agreements. In regard to wages, a minimum wage should be fixed for different kinds of work. WHAT CONCESSIONS WOULD MEAN. SYDNEY, June 22. The secretary of the Master Builders’ Association estimates that the concession of the employees’ claim for a 44-hour week would mean a loss of many millions sterling annually in diminished production. He points out i t hat the value of manu : factures in Australia amounts to £149,000,00(1, and a loss in earning capacity of 9 per cent., which the proposed reduction in hours involves, would therefore represent £13,389,000.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3145, 24 June 1914, Page 27
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