TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Collective Bargaining. .... “Collective bargaining,” points out the “Economist,” is accepted in this country —indeed, it is hardly questioned in principle and many of the most progressive industries welcome it as a factor making for order and stability. This acceptance of trade unionism's central contention. however, carries with it certain obligations on organised labour. One is the duly to exercise a wise discrimination m using, or threatening to use, the ultimate weapon of the strike. There is also an obligation ”on the rank and file to observe the necessary discipline. of the unions is rightly democratic. But it is not true democracy for the rank and file to empower leaders to make agreements and then to repudiate them. It is important that these methods should not further be pursued. For, if they are, what might be a beneiioial period of labour advance may be converted into a series of unnecessary bitter conflicts. That, would lie bad for the prestige of the democratic system. It would be even worse for trade unionism.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20281, 25 August 1937, Page 6
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174TOPICS OF THE DAY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20281, 25 August 1937, Page 6
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