COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
•TJoiieetive Dargaiping,* points out the "Eeonomist," "is accepted/ ffi this country— indeed, it is hardly questioned in principle— and many pf the most progressive industries welcome it as a factor making for order and stability. This acceptance of trade umonism's central qontention, however, carries with it certain obligations on organised labpur. One is the duty to exercise a wise discrimination in using, or tbreatening to use, the ultimate weapon of the strike. There is also an ohligation on the rank and file to observe the neeessary discipline. The meehanism of the unions is rightly democratic, But it is not trpe demoeracy for the rank and file to empower leaders to make agreements and then to repudiate them. It is important that these metbpds should not further be pursued. For, if they are, what might be a beneficial period of lahoiar advance may,be converted into a series of unnecessary bitfcer confliots. That would be bad f01' the prestjge of the democratic system. It would be even wprse for trade uniquigm. , ""
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 194, 2 September 1937, Page 4
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