LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10281, 7 January 1922, Page 4

LABOUR.

«£>_ ARBITRATION COMMITTEES ASKED FOR. LONDON, Jan. 3. With a view to improving employment and restoring confidence between buyers and sellers, and workers and employers, 14 Coalition and Trade Unionist M.P.'s belonging to the Unionist, Liberal, and National Democratic parties sent a manifesto to Mr Lloyd George demanding legislation to compel participants in any industrial dispute, which injures any section of the public, to submit their differences to specially appointed industrial committees functioning like police, county, and high courts; the decisions of which will be binding to both sides under penalties. The signatories believe that the workers will Avelcome machinery abolishing industrial disputes and protecting trade union leaders against extremists. The "Daily Herald" describes the Coalition Labourites' industrial scheme as a pretty plan to chain up unions. It asserts that 90 per cent, of the workers are unaware of the National Democrats' existence.