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several small ones, in the husbanding of l'undu in one account, and
in the economies of central organization and administration, isy
adopting the policy oi dividing traue unions in order to rule them,
the Huler may have postponed the formation of *.ny large-scale*
union, but the demand for a general union may bo hoard again.
13. To encourage the uiroct settlement oi' trade disputes by
employers and workers or their unions the Labour Law adopts the

principle of voluntary arbitration, but attempts to introduce a
measure of discipline into labour relations by declaring strikes
and lock-outs to be illegal unless certain proceuuros for the
settlement of disputes have been followed, Limited compulsory
conciliation (•'limited1* in the sense that it applies to most but
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not ull kinds of dispute) is a further measure intended to avoid
strikes and lock-outs. Under it parties to a dispute ore required
to attend a board ana to assist the board in ius consideration of
the dispute; this contrasts with arbitration, in which decisions
or awards oi arbitration boards will be binding on parties to
disputes only when they have agreed beforehand to accept the
decisions or awards. If, in spite of the efforts of the Labour

Lav/ Committee to uvoid strikes and look -outs through the procedures
of the Lubour Law, there is a stoppage of work, the Law at tempas
to ensure, by means of protective provisions and provisions ior
peaceful picketing, that no harm shall come to workers or employers
at the lianas of the State, provided that the stoppage of work is not
illegal, and that there is no intimidation or annoyance either of

people who wish to work or oi people who do not wish to work*
Illegal stoppages are strikes or lock-outs which occur without the
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procedures of the law having been obsorved/ufter the parties to a
dispute have agreed to accept the decision of an arbitration board
as a moans of settling the dispute.
1*1. Arbitration bourds will consist of not more than five- people:
one or two arbitrators chosen by each party to the dispute and an
/independent
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