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12 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, July 30, 1959 LABOR IN THE U.K. Labor Ministry Has Big Preventive Role By M. McINTYRE HOOD industrial relations in the United Kingdom. LONDON -- The final agency which plays an important part in maintaining a high level of in- dustrial peace in the United Kingdom is the ministry of labor and national service. While its powers, which are largely con- tained in the Conciliation Act of 1896, are of necessity limited, since they do not permit of inter- vention in a strike except with the acquiescence of the parties to it, it can and does play a rather decisive role in the pre- venting of strikes. One of the, officials of the min- istry told mé, * policy. is that prevention is better than cure. The longer we can help to keep the parties talking with each other in an effort to come to a settlement in a dispute, the greater are the chances of avoid- ing strike action." RESULT OF COMMISSION One of the things which has struck me in studying labor re- lations in this country is the| large ber of royal i sions which have studied labor- employer problems. One such commission was set up in 1891 "to enquire into the relations be- tween employers and workmen and to report whether legislation could be directed to remedy any |desirability of the rapid develop- This body emphasized the ment of joint conciliation boards and of state Sucouragoitient of Ce PAN IVIERNVYIEY liaison officers in the industrial relations branch of the ministry of labor. There are six of these| liaison officers. Each is assigned such boards. r tions of this issi were to a specific group of tries. He is r ded as was the reason for , and was surpiiscd should be sug- ested. The union committee was alled in, and the employer gave the reasons for the order. Th translated into legislation in the Conciliation Act, 1896. Under it, a special section of the Board of Trade, which at that time had jurisdiction over labor matters, was authorized to foster volun- tary conciliation agreements, and was granted the powers to deal with trade disputes, as set out in the third article of this series. It is under this act that the min- istry of labor and national serv- ice now acts in such disputes. While the powers of inquiry into a dispute and of taking steps to bring the parties together, and to appoint conciliators or arbitra- tors on request of one or both of the parties, were very limited, the act was not well received by either employers or workers. Both sides of industry felt reluc- tant to accept government inter- ference, even to this limited ex- tent. The result was that for sev- eral years the officers of the de- partment had to use their powers sparingly. By the exercise of dis- cretion, however, the labor de- partment of the Board of Trade, and later the ministry of labor and national service was able to do a good deal of useful work in the field of industrial relations while giving full play to the vol- untary principle in organized in- ized expert on industrial relations in for which he is responsible. He is in constant touch with all dev ments which may carry them the seeds of a dispute. These Haison officers attend meetings of the joint industrial councils of the industries with which they are concerned, acting as observers, but giving their views on matters on which they other's viewpoint. They are also instrumental, when a matter for dispute arises, in bringing the two parties together for around the table talks. In conversation with ome of these liaison officers, I was given specific cases of how they had been able to bring disputes to a speedy end. In one case, a strike of bus employees was started be- cause of the actions of an inspec-| tor. On the first day, the liaison officer went to the spot, talked with both sides, then explained the one side's viewpoint to the other and finally brought them together. As a result, the strike lasted only one day. In another case, the head of an industry announced that the plant They|The point in this is that it is es- diate reply of the men: "Why did you not téil us that before? We realize these changes| are to our benefit, and would have been glad to co-operate if we had been informed sooner. In fact, you should have explained this to us before our holiday ar- rangements were made." VALUABLE SERVICE | The men went back to work, | and the strike lasted half a day. sential that there should be a full understanding of each other's viewpoint on the part of both labor and management, and that is where the liaison officers per- form a very valuable service. of them told me that hun- dreds of incipient disputes had been nipped in the bud just by this process of talking things over. The fact that there can be no official strike until all the ma- chinery of negotiation and con- ciliation has been exhausted gives these officers of the minis- try an ooportunity to bring the two sides together in agreement. NATION-WIDE SERVICE For industrial relations pur- , the United Kingdom is 2 Scientists €| boratory, opening the way for ex- a A a a Isolate Trachoma LONDON (AP)--SBritish scien- tists say they have isolated a vi- rus that develops trachoma--the greatest single cause of blindness --and for the first time proved it by developing the disease in a human volunteer. The British Medical Research Council said the virus could be cultivated in quantity in the la- tensive tests in the search for an- Le ea a By JOHN FARQUHARSON MELBOURNE (Reuters)--An- other major step forward in Brit- ain's ballistic missile research program was taken with the rec- ent successful firing at Austral ia's Woomera rocket range of the third Black Knight test vehicle. The sleek, 35-foot missile, three feet in diameter, soared to a max- imum height of 500 miles and 70 miles down the South Australian desert range. Every time a Black Knight fl off the 1 hing pad to tibiotics and other drugs to pro- vide a cure for the disease. The council said a blind volun- teer was inoculated with the vi- h nose out new secrets in space, it involves a highly concerted split- second technical effort bv the Th Ca A a British Rocket Testing Success "7 flanks of the range, but wherever they are, the communications network keeps them in continu- ous contact with the trial control- er. DRAMATIC COUNT Instruments are checked and reported in, cameras loaded and when all is ready the tense count- down begins--15 minutes to go! Two minutes to go! The auto- matic sequence takes charge to indicate the final stages with cal- culated precision. "Pressure tanks . . . cooling 264 Donors Give Needed Blood LONDON, Ont. (CP)--A special Officials blamed the lull in Annath to hot hy blood and summer holidays. ORGAN MUSIC Nightly at the water on--launcher lights aly start recorders . . . switch to internal batteries . . . start plot- w research at y, South Australia, the rus and developed tr "the first authenticated demon- firing staff at Woomera, and the stration of h tr. duced by a virus cultivated in the laboratory." Some 4,000,000 people are esti- mated to suffer from trachoma, which is highly contagious. It flourishes in und e rdeveloped countries where there is over- crowding, poor hygiene and defi- cient water supplies. BOYS FIND LOOT TORONTO (CP) -- Three boys THOROUGH CHECK The "back room' work begins when a freighter aircraft from England lands at Evetts Field, near the Woomera range-head. The huge crate containing the research rocket is loaded onto a truck which carries it to the test shop, where the missile is assem- bled and checked. Then the tested missile is taken to the firing site and erected to its near-vertical firing position. playing in a field in suburban Scarborough found three cash boxes containing $30,000 in che- ques stolen last weekend from the Chambers Food Club here, police said Wednesday. These offices deal with all indus- gions, and can be called in for Itati by either side in a poses divided into eight r , six in dustries. faults disclosed". would be closed for two weeks on Scot; Much of this work is done by certain dates, and that all em-qgwn office with a regional indus- Engl. and separate regions for and Wales. Each has its dispute. This all forms part of the structure by which strikes can be avoided. trial disputes in which individual | firms are involved in their re-| A complete dress rehearsal of |the firing program is carried through and every detail of be- (havior observed and checked. | Launching time is set. Far out s and makers in Britain. |- ting . . . uncage 0s . . . eject umbilical . . . Ry valves . + 2070 thrust develops!" At plus five seconds, the liguid-| fueled, conicai-nosed missile rises slowly from the launching pad, belching flame and steam from its four rocket engines At "flame out," the kerosene and peroxide fuel is exhausted, but the rocket continues to soar 100, 200, over 300 miles, or more, until its great kinetic energy is expended, the ascent ceases, and it starts to fall back to earth. The "round down" then starts. Operators ease up. Instruments are turned off, film is removed and labelled, records collected. 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