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Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Union, Mark Sheldon, Australian Commissioner to the United States, will address a meeting, open to all members of the Union, on the subject of "Australian Problems." Mr. Sheldon will deal especially with the labor situation in Australia, on which he is a noted authority, and will point out the progress made in that country toward making its workers the best treated in the world...
...Sheldon, during his long stay in this country, has become one of the most conspicuous representatives of the East. He is well-known for the statistics of the war which he compiled, and for his chairmanship of the Australian Repatriation Commission...
...Sheldon will present his views on the different aspects of the labor situation, particularly in regard to the open shop, collective bargaining and compulsory arbitration. He is a strong defender of the first two principles, but believes that the last does more to cultivate the striking habit than to restrain it. He lays this fault principally to the impossibility of enforcing the strike-prevention law. While America is in a stage of industrial upheaval, Australia has already gone through this development, and in Mr. Sheldon's speech its experience should be valuable in the settling of problems here...
...several years Mr. Sheldon has been one of the commanding figures of the Eastern hemisphere in this country. He is noted as an international football expert, and stands out as an exponent of strenuous life in the open. During and after the war he served as chairman of the Australian Repatriation Commission, which was signally successful in its work of restoring captured Australian soldiers and sailors to their country. He also became famous for his work as a war statistician...
...Sheldon will explain the working of the Australian labor laws, which are far in advance of any other country. At the present time the Australian laborer works under the best conditions in the world, and Mr. Sheldon will describe how this state of affairs was gradually attained. He is a strong advocate of close relations between employer and employer and favors the principle of the open shop, which he considers as necessary to the success of the industrial system as the right of collective bargaining. Australia, he believes has found that compulsory arbitration is a fruitful breeder of strikes rather...