LABOUR'S WEAPONS.
ballot-box or strikes ? ''-. ■ industrial disputes act ;..■■, condemned:. : Br T«le S r«Dh-Press Association-OoDrrlsht ™_ Sydney, April 1. The; Trades l Union. Congress adopted a. resolution ■ omphaticaUy protesting agauist Mr. Wade's coercive Industrial Disputes.Amendment Act df 1909, and pledging itself.to make every effort to return Labour members at next election -in sufficient number to • have the amended Act repealed arid-the Industrial Disputes Aof itself amended so as to be suitable for the workers. '■ ;•• ( pother resolution carried was:— _ Inat this congress favours 'obtaining its ideals and- redressing its grievances by_ constitutional methods,' and is of that strikes ehould only; be resorted to when every possible hope of' conciliation has failed.! , ' ■' ''.)'. ■■■'■'•.•■•'
Supporters of the motion urged that past experience had proved that it was futile to expect, to -redress-'grievances by a resort to-strikes. The ballot-bos was the only channel through which it was possible to : achieve Labour's ideals
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 5
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145LABOUR'S WEAPONS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 5
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