Reduce Output.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1922, Page 1

Reduce Output.

AUSTRALIAN UNION’S PROPOSALS.

SYDNEY, July 19

In an endeavour to combat any reduction in wages, the Now South Wales Labour Council has formulated a remarkable schemo advocating a policy of go-slow and irritation strikes. The scheme has beep submitted to a conference of union secretaries and officials.

The Labour Council’s proposal is that the miners should adopt the “ darg” ; that shop assistants should give “good weight” and inform customers of any defects in goods, together with the cost prico of the article; that other employees in shops should give “full value” ; that railway and tramway employees should carry out full departmental regulations; and that the seamen should “take things easy”; that tobacco workers should improve the quality of the commodity produced, and expose all adulterations; and that all workers employed in the manufacture of food stuffs shall be called upon to refuse to adulterate articles of foodstuffs which are used by the working classes.

In putting forward the proposal the Council stated:—“lf the employers force upon the workers reduction of 10, 20, or 30 per cent., the workers will be justified in reducing their output 10, 20, or 30 per cent. If they arc forced to work longer hours they will produce no more than in the shorter week. The committee elected must be given full power to act.”

The conference agred that the Counci of Action formed at the recent All Anstralnn Trade Unions Conference lie called to immediately put into operation the machinery agreed to at that congress.