NEWPORT LABOUR CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 12, 6 September 1912, Page 3

NEWPORT LABOUR CONGRESS.

CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, September 5. At the Newport Congress, Ben Tillet’s motion, suggesting drastic action with reference to the forms of arbitration and conciliation between employers and workers in each trade, opened a discussion on compulsory arbitration. Mr Harvey Brace, a member of the House of Commons, strongly opposed abandoning the strike weapon. Mr Havelock Wilson announced ibis conversion to arbitration, since investigating the system in Australia and New Zealand. Its introduction would lie greatly to the advantage of the British worker. Ho found New Zealand’s judge a little bit prejudiced, but the Australian judge gained almost everybody’s confidence. The debate was adjourned.