The Archive · 1928

Bind the Employers

Referring to "the recently promulgated rules governing arbitration of disputes between Capital and Labour the delegates said that the ni workers held that, during. of a strike, the workers involved should be entitled to regular pay' that disciplinary measures should not be applied to the strikers only, ut should also be applied to the employers, in' ease the latter were ound equally at fault; that instead of merely imposing cash penalties apon guilty. employers, provisions should also be made for their im: prisonment in serious cares; -and finally, that representatives of the Party should be included in the Ar-bit ration Committee.

As regards the proposed Factory Law, the Inbour representatives em= ied the necessity of according labour union of any factory recognition and stricter regoverning the dismissal of factory workers. The early promulgation of regulations gov cerning insurance of factory workers by employers was also urged upon the Party leaders.

On the general situation of labour, the delegation voiced the hope that there should be an increase of waxes for thave engaged in low manual labour, that work-cers should have the right to elect their own representatives and that Labour unions -shoukl " receive a subsidy towards: their maintenance expenses.

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