JOHANNESBURG MINES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18443, 29 March 1922, Page 5

JOHANNESBURG MINES.

THE EMPLOYERS’ TERMS. CAPETOWN. March 27. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Mines, Johannesburg, Mr Buckle "bairnian. said the system of shop stewards and shaft stewards who interfered with the work of the employees was undermining discipline and had become a veritable nuisance, and could no longer be tolerated. He laid dowrt conditions on which the Chamber would recognise trade unions in future as follows: The Union must contain a substantial proportion of the particular class of mine employees it purports to represent. Workmen’s unions are not to be recognised. Representing officials of the latter must not be members of workmen’s unions. A union be properly must make proper provision for a secret ballot before declaring a strike. The Chamber will not recognise a union whose members refuse to work with non-members or which countenances a strike in order to force the employees to join it. Other clauses cover a refusal to recognise persons who have been associated with or augmented the executive which conducted the recent strike or council of action as representatives of any union whatever, and a refusal to recognise political institutions claiming to be trade unions. The chairman added that in time it might be necessary to make alterations to the trade union consitutions, especially in regard to the secret ballot. The Chamber is prepared to meet accredited representatives in the meantime without insisting on the prior acceptance clause.