BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 165563, 15 June 1918, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

LABOUR DISPUTES. WHITLEY COMMITTEE'S REPORT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 7.30 p.m., Juno 14th. LONDON, June 13. A further report of tho Wliitiey Committeo is definitely against compulsory arbitration, on the grounds that reitlier employers nor employed desire it. and that it has not proved a successful method of avoiding strikes in war time, and is less likely to be suceessfil during peace. Tlio committee is also against a scheme of conciliation which •wonld compulsorily suspend a strike or lock out pending an inquiry. The Committeo advocate the present machinery for voluntary conciliation, and setMng up of joint industrial councils, but consider that there should be some means of holding an independent inquiry into the circumstances of a dispute, enabling an cuthoritative pronouncement to be made on its merits. The committee also advocate a standing Arbitration Council, to which disputants might voluntarily refer disputes, and arbitrators might settle less important cases locally.

THE NEW STAR. Greenwich officials state that the Rrotor Observatory, New Zealand, was probably the first to discover the new star. WOaiEN AGAINST PEACE BY NEGOTIATION. Tho annual congress of tho Women's Co-operative Guild, held at Bradford, rejected the Central Committee's recommendation for a workers' international congress to negotiate peace. NO WINTER RACING. The Government has decided that, in view of tho strain on the railways there shall bo no racing next winter.