The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 81
Abuses Aimed At
Abuses Aimed At.
Now, I wish to again remind Trades Unions that the objections which have been raised in Great Britain to different forms of this system have nearly all been objections to the abuses of the system, and not to the system itself: abuses which in the absence of any such control or compulsion as that provided by an Arbitration Court the selfishness of employers was mainly responsible for. If the system has been a pronounced success in so many cases in the absence of any tribunal to fix fair standards, surely it could achieve far wider success where a competent Court could not only fix the standards but maintain them, and prevent any abuses of the system.