The scare-mongers, whether in the Conservative or the Labour press, appear to have done their I took occasion not long ago ress the view that there would ko a gradual adinstment of Labour conditions. At the present moment the sugar harvest goes forward without serious interruption, the shearing, under the Federal award, which was repudiated by the official heads of the Union, is steadily pro-erossing, and the eraployers have reached the stage of saving that there is doubt whether they can now find work for all those seeking it. Tu a score ov more cases the industrial courts are making changes in the rates of waces, and generally increasing the hours of labour from 44 to 48 per week. The men are not seriously kicking, and this may be accepted as evidence that they are generally rea-Jo and uninfluenced by the "Reds." In some cases wages have actually been increased, but the important fact seems to remain that the men are accepting the verdicts of the so-called arbitration ey industrial courts, whether the verdicts be favourable to themselves or otherwise. We now find the industrial tribunals also forcing the pace. They are telling men who refuse to work that they are on strike and until they go to work they cannot expect a hearing. No longer is the influence of a few extremists on the central labour bodies sufficient to make men idle because they are supposed to be in sympathy with some other oily of workers. So it comes about that manufacturers are getting new contracts, and labour is allowing itself to be adjusted.
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