AUSTRALIAN METHODS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 928, 22 September 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN METHODS.

■AN INTBEESTING , : (Iteo.'September,-21,-9.20 pirn;) }/ : - .; ■/.-''. v'" September; 21.;. Sir J. W. Taverner (Agent-Goneralifbr, .Victoria) read ;a\-.;paper /.whiohvhe explained , the -.Australian 'system .' of utilising the police to": collect information on. unemployment. ■"' Hevalso detailed the -working of the Victorian .Labour. Bureau, and' advooated a" permanent secretary ..to be attached,ioT the ~lnterrAtional\: : ..Com-; mittee.^who-would collect and 'circulate reports. ' z ;:\j\; .;- f,^-:l''r''~r^' : % : '*- Mr.'Beveridge : ]usfirfed', Britain's action in- ; establishing •,v national; - .instead ,of municipal labour; exchanges.' The. powers. of the British - municipalities were more' limited than;in Germany. \ Britain.would' shortly- extend the system of exchanges into, the' ; small, ;;■ the ; country.' ';;::,;. :;' v ;.' .'■ Mr.. • Jlirkpatrick., (South Australia), declared that land. monopoly, "was" the: principal cause: .-'.'bf■■■ unemployment. ,He W-. plained i . Australia's-, land; legislation,methods of "arbitration, and the regulation of hours, work, and wages. '.-';.; -Professor Deyine (Columbia 'Oniversity) . said he doubted ■ the "possibility ■ of. international action, though, the United States was for it, ■tecatisV America-', received a.' .-million : : European; ..labourers during last year, and' many failed ;tp'find vemployment^~J-- : -- , ----r~--- : " r .:,"'.:;•-.-""'• , ; Mr.- M.'Call ;: j[-Tasmania)--_said-'employment trouble, had./iiot! arisen .in.. Tasmania,-.; of,-''the.';older. countries I ;were 'largely".due"fa-.want' of. the. proper, training -of ■-; boys;; which' resulted in many' wasters -who : -wore', 'not employable. : ,:. : .;. ; '-:. -;,;'. _■; A; : : ;;/'" .;;; ■ OBJECTS -ASSOCIATION'' ] The_ International' Association ' for - labour .Legislation was founded in 1900; and' ?j-s ;Switzei-,: land. ' The -objects.-of.'the International Association are to form a bond of unionamong those -who,, in* various, industrial .countries;-believe,'in- the -necessity for \&- bour legislation;;'to establish an international Labour Office, with'the'duty .'of publishing a/periodical collection of labour laws on all countries; to': facilitate the study of labour; legislation; especially' by providing information oh the, subject; and to-further -the .study, 'of-'the question of procurihgl-.uiiformity,.'in' the'' various codes of-'labour'laws'and'in'-iii-tarnational.statistics of-labour. The as-' sociation is: divided into national sections.These .elect representatives to a;commit-, tee to which.the.Governments:of-the:'var-ious countries concerned are also invited to/send-representatives:-EveTy. two -years. this committee .assembles*for,.a -general: meeting, at ■ which problems' affecting'; labour Conditions - are, -discussed.-;; Thirteen Governments' piy regular subventions' to the Labour-'Office,;and.:sond: delegates -•-'to'" these meetings.' Tho scientific work of the,,Labou'r'Office-is'of"peat'value; sides; providing, information-;pn.-- specific •points in connection- witri industrial legislation in . all} parts of,; the world, the office publishes in -; three < languages the periodical : 'Tsulletih,";;roritaining p'atticniars of new.labour- laws.v: • ~.::,'.: