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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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. • .1 1 1 -i other country in the world, hasbeen dissatisfied and loudly expressing its dis-content ever since the enactment into law ofChancellor Lloyd-Georges famous concilia-tion act. In 1907, the Chancellor, himself theauthor of the now pending old age pensionsand unemployment relief schemes, pilotedthrough Parliament an act pro\iding for cer-tain agreements between employers and em-ployees which should pre\ent strikes for thefollowing se\-en years. Mr. Lloyd-George,then President of the Board of Trade, andRichard Bell, then Secretary of the Amalga-mated Society of Railway Servants, drew upthis scheme. It prescribed that all disputesshould be settled by conciliation boards com-posed of representatives of the comi)anies andthe men, with two arbitrators chosen from theHouse of Lords. In case of dispute, no strikewas to be declared before the year 1914. Nospecific grievance is alleged as a reason for thej)resent serious strike situation, and the men T?IR PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 283
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Cuii\ ri^iit l.y the A POUCEMEN DIRECTING 17,000 LONDON DOCK STRIKERS ON THEIR MARCH FROM CONNAUGHT GATE TO EAST LONDON DOCKS admit that the disputes have, in most cases,been settled. Yet, in the words of one of theirleaders the British laboring man is hope-lessly dissatisfied with the working of thescheme and bitterly laments the slowness ofthe results it yields. The men claim that itgives the companies the power to postponeacting upon demands. Despite their agree-ment, the men have accordingly broken withthe companies, and by the middle of lastmonth, it was estimated that 400,000 workers,men and women, had gone out. Most of themwere employed in the transportation indus-tries, and very soon railroads, street carlines and river service were crippled, andin seventeen cities and larger towns all theteamsters, truckmen and freight handlershad struck. j^^ The British Isles produce, per-Qouernment haps, less of the ncccssities of Intervenes 1 it r ^i • every day life for their ownpeople

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