Labour And the Ballot.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 April 1910, Page 3

Labour And the Ballot.

HOW TO REDRESS GRIEVANCES. L'flY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] Lpkr PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SYDNEY, April 1. The Trades J'nion Congress adopted a resolution emphatically protesting against Mr Wade's coercive Industrial Disputes Act of 1909, and pledging itself to make every effort to return Labour members at the next election in sufficient number to have the amended Act repealed a>nd the Industrial Disputes Act itself amended so as to be suitable for the workers. Another resolution carried was: "Tfliat this congress favours obtaining its ideals .and redressing its grievances by constitutional methods, and is of opinion that strikes should only be resorted to wlieffi every possible hope of conciliation has failed." Supporters of the motion urged that past experience had proved that it was futile to- expect to redress grievances bv a resort to strikes. The ballot-box was the only channel through which it was possible to achieve Labour's ideals.