§ 16. Mr. Awberyasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why the names of the two assessors and the scale of 452 tasks to be performed by the workers were omitted from the arbitration award of 24th October, 1952, in the Malayan rubber industry.
§ Mr. LytteltonThe chairman of the arbitration board has stated publicly that he alone signed the report because the two assessors unfortunately could not agree over the inclusion of an appendix concerning, the scale of tasks.
§ Mr. AwberyIs the Minister aware that the omission of the names of the assessors from this award and of the tasks which were expected from the workers has created a great deal of suspicion among the workers, especially when they were led to believe that there was to be no reduction in wages and the day after the award of 10 cents a day reduction took place?
§ Mr. LytteltonI think that much too much is made of the difficulty arising in the case of arbitration procedure. The fact remains that the ordinary processes of collective bargaining, conciliation and arbitration were followed in this case.