Directors'.Journal..on-Brown's Lunatic Bill-/continued 3.

Of course, Prospero's main objection to the new measure was not that it s=ttacked the unions: on the contrary, his chief concern was to make more effective onslaughts into union powers: ",eelt is quite conceivable - indeed, it would inevitably happen = thet an obviously inflationary wage claim would be referred to the Board for examimation. But bargaining on the claim could, and would, continue. The employer might be eager to reach a settlement. If he was not, the union might take some form of industrial action to force his hand. One way or another an agreement could be signed, with the Board still conscientiously immersed in the details of the original claim. It would be hard to imagine a moreeffective method of making the Board, and the policy, look ridiculous. And if. it is argued that the settlement would still be ~investigated and if necessary condemned, all one has to do is point to experience, The inescapable conclusion is that the ‘early warning' Bill would, if it became law, fail completely in its primary purpose of preventing inflationary pay agreements."