CAPITALS LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 114, 11 November 1919, Page 7

CAPITALS LABOUR

WAGES AND WORKING

CONDITIONS

AUSTRALIAN EMPLOYERS'

PROPOSALS

MODIFIED WHITLEY SCHEME

FAVOURED.

(SKIVED FRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPXRIGHTJ

(Received November 11, 8.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day.

The report of. the conference of employers recently held in Melbourne. to consider trade relationships recommends : The continuation of the present system of arbitration, in 4 settling wages aud working conditions. That Parliament should decide the number of hours to constitute a week's work. The adoption of the Whitley scheme in a modified form. The introduction of profit-sharing where practicable. The adoption of payment by results. Unemployment insurance by general taxation. Assistance to employees to build homes. A Commonwealth legal endowment for children under fourteen^ where the wages do not exceed the stipulated amount.

[The Whitley report recommended the creation in each industry of district councils, representing the trades unions and the employers' and employees' associations, and the institution m particular work of works committees, representing employers and employees, with the object of settling the principles and conditions of employment, and securing to the workers a share ofHhe responsibility for the observance of the conditions of work, preventing and adjusting differences, and ensuring the greatest poseible security of ' earnings and employment.]