THE FUTILITY OF STRIKES.
Received April 1, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, Aprli 1. Tne Trades Union Congress adopted a resolution emphatically protesting against Mr Wade's coercive Industrial Disputes Amendment Act of 1909, and pledging itself to make every effort to return Labour members at next election in sufficient number *c have the amended Act repealed and the Industrial Disputes ct itself amended so as to be suitable for the workers. A uother resolution carried was:— "lhat this congress favours obtaining its ideals and redressijg its grievances ty constitutional methods, and is of opinion t,hat strikes should only be resorted to when everv 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 by a resort to strikes. The ballot box was the only channel through which it was possible to achieve Labour's ideals.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19100402.2.25
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10008, 2 April 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
147THE FUTILITY OF STRIKES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10008, 2 April 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in