WORKERS' SUPERANNUATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 9

WORKERS' SUPERANNUATION.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. PROPOSALS. Mention wae made by Mr. E. Anderson at a meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday of a proposed scheme for workers' euperannuation i "which a special,committee of the Chamber had under consideration. Mr. Anderson stated that the committee's report would probably ibe presented to the next meeting of the Council. In the meantime, Mr. Anderson said he desired to cay that the scheme was placed before the Council by Mr. Frank Bodle, not as a representative of the employers, or anyone else, but it was merely submitted as a proposal tending to improve the position of the manual worker in his old age, just as in many cases clerks were aeeisted by their employers through the establishment of superannuation funds to which employer and employee both contributed. It was to be regretted that the scheme should be referred to in certain quarters as an employers' scheme to enslave the workere. Such talk ac that could only have the effect of engendering a hostile feeling in the minds of those ■who were ihonestly prepared to assist in any reasonable scheme of social improvement. He thought he was speaking for the members of the Council when he said that they were of opinion that some form of general superannuation -was desirable. Tihey did not, and they felt cure Mr. Bodle did not, suggest that the scheme put forward >as new, or that it -was intended to 'be other than the outline of a proposal from which some more comprehensive and detailed schemj? might be evolved.