COMPULSION OF CONSENT ?

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13150, 9 August 1913, Page 11

COMPULSION OF CONSENT ?

! CONCILIATION IN BRITAIN. I ' / LONDON, Aiig. 4. Under the heading s "Compulsion or Consent?" the Times publishes a leading article m which, discussing the report of the Industrial. Council, it. says: — ' "It gives arVei'y satisfactory and hopeful 'account of our .system of voluntary conciliation. Tho system as a whole .cannot ue said to have broken down, despite the strain to winch it has boon , subjected and the excitement prevailing ; during the last years. The bads of th-2 system is mutual consent. The -council thinks that to introduce compulsion would endanger this invaluable _ element. jWe quite agree with that opinion. AcI cordingly,- the suggestion of compulsion, • popular m some quarters, is briefly dis- : missed, and neither mbnetna-y penalties I for any breach of an award nor the legal 1 pQihißition oi assistance to persons ' guilty of it am recommended." f With a view to strengthening- the es> ' isting official machinery for Settling injdustrial disputes, the Government/ m October, 1911, established an industrial Council, composed of representatives of employers and employed, with Sir Geo. Askwith as Chief Industrial Commissioner, "for the purpose of considering and of inquiring into matters referred to | them affecting trade disputes; a:vl ' especially • of taking suitable actien m i regard to any dispute which is referred ;to them affecting the principal trades of j the country, or likely to cause disagreements involving the ancillary trades, or which the parties before or after the breaking out of^a. dispute are themselves j unable to settle."