TO SETTLE INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 7

TO SETTLE INDUSTRIAL UNREST

PROPOSED CREATION OF A- ■ LABOUR DEPARTMENT. /' By tfelegranh—Press Aesooiation-Courrieht London, -June 15. The Unionist Committee 011 Industrial Unrest, after two years' investigation, recommends the setting up of a Department of Labour under a Chief Commissioner, the latter to be invested with power to intervene in a strike and appoint a Board of Conciliation, anyone breaking an agreement sanctioned by the Commissioner to lose the certainty of a fixed-wage. It is proposed that legal sanction should to'ißlre^ers''''.and l Workers' agreem'eiit , ' , witli', Te'gard" {o" Cages', and that a minimum >vage should' be fixed for different kinds of work.

ATTACK ON TRADE UNIONS. BY EX-PRESIDENT TAFT. Cambridge (Mass.)> Juno 15. Sir. W. H. Taft (ex-President of the United States), in all address at Harvard University, attacked trades unions for their efforts to exempt themselves from tile operations of the Sherman anti-trust law; also for the support of the Colorado strikers' excesses. Mr. Taft declared-that the unions ivere endeavouring to weaken tho law, in order to pursue their own ends, and by violence if necessary. Certain trades unions maintained actual rebellion against the State authority. straight talk from the EMPLOYERS. TO NEW SOUTH WALES MVAED BREAKERS. ' Newcastle, June 16. Replying ,to the Employees' Federation's request for a conference, the Colliery _ Proprietors' 'Association states that if tho 'men consider awards and conditions of employment, can bo changcd when they think fit there is very little liopo of a conference Serving any useful purpose.