AUSTRALIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.
PRESIDENT'S 'VIEWS ON LABOUR
UNREST
A FORCEFUL SPEEOII
t;tiito<i Press Association.— Copyright.) Received S-40 p.m.. Juno 17.
SYDNEY, Juno 17. At tlm annual meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce ; Mr.' Braddon, the President; in hia on-ening speech, said tho chief reasons, for tho gold shortago was probably the adver.so Australian trado balance, only thov ;woro importing more than. they can pay for w/th exnorts." The ware of lat-ter-day personal pxtravagance had undnlv stimulated' imports. Regarding labour unrest-, ho said emnlovers ris r. win had ro objection to collective -barpainjnp; with labour unions so long ■■as tin bargain was honourably observed but it w.nr,'notorious that the men had in many cas"s lately rospoftcd a bargain a mnmont logger'thin it nniie-l | hem. O^mnulsor«- .arbitral ion hit! Kor) ( »?p.-,sly Vro!c^n'do.wn,'fls it hadMieon found 11 pr.T-fico tb/it' tjie~larger" uH--10"-; bo coerced ' i?ito Avork'inp; py-** by their own leaders if th§v rli>V ('•A<> ot?ien\is".' Ou> of+ho''worst fe-a----I;irv-T i * Orinoco latJ^rlv was tho dobberately reduced effort of tho workr". in a Hmo wh^n iliev wore cons+antly claiming shorter hours on I lai-pyv nay.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12884, 18 June 1913, Page 5
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