Mark Sheldon, Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia to the United States, has been announced as the next speaker in the Union's schedule for November and December. Mr. Sheldon will address a meeting to be held next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. His subject will be "Australian Problem," with special reference to the labor situation. Because of the great progress of Australia in the settling of her labor troubles, and the thorough study which Mr. Sheldon has made of the subject, his talk is expected to be particularly illuminating.

Mr. Sheldon will be the guest of the University on Tuesday, and will visit the various buildings and departments. Preceding his speech at the Union, he will be entertained at a dinner given in his honor by the Signet Society.

For 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.

Will Explain Labor Laws

Mr. 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 than a preventive of them. Australian industrial experience has shown that rather than stake their claims on a court which may quite likely decide against them, union leaders find it more advantageous to strike directly, knowing that the law can not be adequately enforced against them. Since Australia has already passed through the stage in which the United States finds itself in regard to labor conditions and government ownership of industries, Mr. Sheldon's address should prove of great value in throwing light on present-day American problems.