The Right to Strike

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 11, 19 May 1911, Page 14

The Right to Strike

M. JATJIfES ON COMPULSCHY ARBITRATION. Thus an interviewer in tli-e "Labour Leader" :• Asking M. Jaures if lie ivas against the compulsory arbitration principle. I got an emphatic "Yes." 1 instanced New Zealand, but the Frenchman's eloquent hand waived that vigordu;Colony away. "It is not Europe, , ' lie said. M. Vandervelde here appeared, chiding his colleague for delay. M. Jaures rose, but the "point was important and I stuck to him. "You admit the need, however, for machinery to regulate the relation of State employees with their departments. What alternative is there to compulsory arbitration." ''The right machinery is th© representation of organised workers in the Government of the country." Pie add-ed that fox* the present he would have preliminary meeting between the- parties to a threatened strike on the Canadian model. The right to strike, liowever, was vital. "Even against the State?" said I. "Certainly," said M. Jaures.