UNION DISCIPLINE
ATTITUDE TO UNOFFICIAL STRIKES British Official Wireless (Received August 24, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 23. The report of the General Council of the Trades’ Union Congress, which will be submitted to the sixty-ninth annual congress at Norwich next month, includes a reference to the subject of trades councils and unofficial strikes. The report says that the general council regrets it is necessary to remind trade councils that as the official representatives of trade union policy in their districts, they must not actively encourage unofficial strikes in those cases where the union or unions concerned had definitely refused to recognise them. Trades councils, it added, had been informed that the authority of the executive committee of the trade union over its branches and members must be recognised by the trades councils, and that no steps whatever should be initiated or supported by any trades council which would in any way tend to undermine that authority.
A joint committee has been set up by the general council of the Trades’ Union Congress and the British Medical Association to deal with various aspects of special medical questions affecting the health and welfare of workers, including research and the training of doctors in industrial diseases.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20815, 25 August 1937, Page 9
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203UNION DISCIPLINE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20815, 25 August 1937, Page 9
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