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Notes of Proceedings at Heeting of the Committee to consider a

Scheme of Compulsory Military Training held at the

Council Chamber on the 13th. of June, 1910.

Present:-

His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern-

-ment and all members except Major Hart-Synnot,

who by inadvertence was not summoned.

The Officer Administering the Government

read the note of proceedings of the Meeting of the Sub-Committee

held on the 6th. of June, and briefly explained the modified

scheme of compulsory training which had been considered by the Sub-Committee and against the adoption of which a large majority

of the Un-Official Members of the Committee had voted.

Mr. Shewan spoke in favour of the modified

scheme. He said he thought the difficulties, emphasized by

those who voted against it, of sparing employees from the Docks and Sugar Refineries were exaggerated. He did not find diffi-

-culty in letting skilled employees at the Cement Works,

Alv managed by the Firm, have a day's holiday when they wanted it.

But if the difficulty was a real one it

could *** be met by increasing the Staff. This would entail a

sacrifice which the Firms concerned and all large employers of

labour ought to be willing to bear in the interest of the object

in view.

Mr. Keswick asked how shareholders would

view such action on the part of those responsible for the manage –

-ment of the industries referred to.

ur. Osborne spoke in favour of the modified

scheme

Mr. Hough said that he was in favour of tha

principle of xxxpaksangkan compulsion, but he considered that

the scheme was too drastic, He suggested modification of it in

the