WAR CONTRACTS AND TRADE UNIONS
ENFORCEMENT OF PREFERENCE j. Melbourne, January 15. The Defonce Department has inserted i a new clause in the contract form per-. mitting persons authorised by any trade ■ union to interview contractors > and' om- „(j ployees. ' M 'Hie Victorian Chamber of) Manufao'| turors takes this as indicating the forcemeat of preference to unionists-! One firm, which is doing, all in its; power to assist the Department, strongly resents tho action, and urges manufacturers not to sign contracts containing the clause pending an action foci its removal. V Mr. Jessen, Honorary Minister in thai federal Government, states that it lias been dccided to place contracts to equip, transports with private firms, as the; State dockyards aro not completing the work fast onough; also because they are employing . non-unionists, which is against the Federal Government's principles. !
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2360, 16 January 1915, Page 7
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138WAR CONTRACTS AND TRADE UNIONS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2360, 16 January 1915, Page 7
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