This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...declared that' when a non-union workman is engaged by an employer in consequence of the union being unable to supply a 1 In this respect conditions become identical with those which Millerand tried to bring about by his strike law, to which exception was taken by French trade unionists. See pp. 102-3. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...declared that' when a non-union workman is engaged by an employer in consequence of the union being unable to supply a 1 In this respect conditions become identical with those which Millerand tried to bring about by his strike law, to which exception was taken by French trade unionists. See pp. 102-3. workman of equal ability willing to undertake the work, at any time within twelve weeks thereafter, the union shall have the right to supply a man capable of performing the work, provided the workman first engaged declines to become a member of the union.' This provision was made applicable to those nonunion men already employed. In a subsequent award in Auckland in the same industry, however, Dr. Clarke has pointed out, such a concession (which meant in effect the proscription of non-union labour, its tenure of employment being rendered so insecure) is withheld, and it is declared that 'no employer shall be compelled to discharge any non-unionist already legally employed by him, notwithstanding such workman may not hereafter join the union.'1 Emboldened by the support of the court the labour party in New Zealand is asking now that the preferential employment of trade unionists shall be enforced by statute. To this proposal employers as a class are vehemently opposed; their associations have adopted strongly protesting resolutions, and chambers of commerce have lent to their resistance almost unanimous support. The reasons advanced for the demand that trade unionism should in effect be declared compulsory are: (1) that the expense of putting the Act in operation falls upon the unions, though all labour benefits; (2) the difficulty of holding the unions together without it; (3) that preference is only given now, when, but for the Act, it...
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