1937-04-19 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1987

ENGINEERING DISPUTES

Procedure During

Strikes

stewards in any section of the industry to hold or to attend meetings other than those convened by the district committee to whom they are respon- sible."

Exactly what the operatives expect who are hindering the production of aircraft by ceasing work, is not easy

"The executive council of the A.E.U. to say, because the relations of the

dissociates itself from any action in con- Allied Engineering and

Employers' National Federation and the engineer-sequence of the meetings of the un- ing trade unions being what they are, to in the Press."

official Shop Stewards Council referred their action is clearly unconstitutional. which have

* MAll the trade unions

members employed in the engineering industry are signatories to the agree- ment known as the "provisions for avoiding disputes,” and that agreement clearly defines procedure which has to be followed when a difference arises.

There must be no stoppage of work until the conciliation machinery set up by that agreement has failed to find a solution of the difficulty.. The stop- pages of work which have taken place at Derby and also in London are, there- fore, not only breaches of that agree ment, but acts which definitely dis

credit the executives which negotiated it That is an unfortunate effect from the point of view of the operatives, be- cause under the rules, the various cen- tral authorities are bound to withhold "strike pay" from the operatives who have acted, as the trade union phrase has it, "contrary to the interests" of the organisation.

--Engineering.

COTTON WAGE INCREASE A

sent about 1s 3d in the pound on eur- A wage increase, which will repre- rent wages, has been granted to about 12,000 operatives in cotton trade.

the

Lancashire

They are power-loom overlookers, drawers, and the increase was granted tapesizers, warp-dressers, twisters and after a conference between represen- tatives of their various trade organisa- tions and the wages committee of the Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association.

Five thousand oak seedlings from English royal parks have been sent to Canada for planting as a Coronation commemoration.

From the trade union point of view, however, the worst feature of the un- constitutional strike is that it ignores the fact that what is done or left un- done, affects, not the small minority which is participating in it, but the far walls of the 600-years-old Slapton larger majority who have no concern Parish Church, near Towcester, Nor the thants, during restoration operations.

which over

with the difference trouble has arisen. The sudden, sec- tional strike is, in fact, a selfish man- oeuvre, which gains nothing for the men participating in it and jeopardises not only the conditions, but also the wage rates, of the operatives in other branches of the industry.

Paintings were discovered on the

The Roxburgh Castle, 7,850 tons, a single-screw motor cargo vessel for the Union Castle line, was launched from Harland and Wolff's yard at Belfast.

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· BOARD OF DIRECTORS :-- Amalgamated Engineering Union: was rejected at the National Free Chun, Esq., F. K. Kwok Esq. Wong

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