BRITISH LABOUR BILL
♦ RESPONSIBILITY FOR STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS OPPOSITION OF TRADE UNIONS By Telegraph—Presß Association-Copyright (lice. November '4, 1.55 a.m.) London, November ]. Tho "Daily Express" states that tlio Government yesterday submitted, a Bill making strikes and lockouts illegal to iho executives of the societies, cngireers, the National Federation of General Workers, and other unions. The Bill extends the payment of all war bonuses to the end of September and sets up industrial courts, the awards of which will bo legally enforced. Tho officials and executives of the trades unions or employers' associations will be amenablo to the" law in case of strikes or lockouts, and a financial penalty will be Icvyablo upon the funds of trades unions and associations if found guilty. The trades union leaders strongly opposed the Bill, and intimated that if it wero wised the trades unions would refuso to be parties to the Industrial Court machinery. Novtroheless it is necessary for tho Government, to do something;, as the Bill securing the payment of the war bonuses ends in three weeks.—A us.N.Z. Cable Assn. — ==
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 34, 4 November 1919, Page 7
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177BRITISH LABOUR BILL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 34, 4 November 1919, Page 7
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