INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 91, 27 January 1928, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

MR PHILIP SNOWDEN’S VIEWS.

(Per Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, January 25. Speaking last night, Mr Philip Snowden (who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the* Labour Government) said he anticipated that the conference with the employers would effect a*, great change for the better in industrial relations. There was only an extreme minority among the workers who-, refused to accept the responsibility ot co-operation in industiy. He said he could conceive no folly more colossal than the possibility of some sudden and revolutionary act to< change the existing industrial system, and then immediately to build up and erect a new and superior industrial orwas not made that way. True class division to-day was not between the employers and the workmen, but between those who put then; selfish interests foremost, and those willing to sacrifice their individual interests for the common good. To say the lot of the wage earning: class could not he improved under the existing system was sheer nonsense. Improvement in the past had been won not by fighting, but by co-operation among the workers. The limit of improvement under the existing order had not been reached.