INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

The first step towards the conference between employers and wage-earners which Parliament at the end of last session agreed should be summoned is to be taken next week at Wellington, where a committee, convened by the Minister of Labour, is to meet to make preparatory arrangements. We agree with the member for Auckland West, that nothing but good can come of the frank and full discussion of economic relations and conditions by those principally concerned, and it is very satisfactory to have his assurance that organised Labour throughout New Zealand is responding heartily to v the Government's proposal for a conference. Nobody who knows anything of Mr. Savage and his public career could accuse him of being lukewarm in the cause of Labour, an,d it is a most significant and hopeful sign of ! the times that he and other representatives of the workers, who are too often casually lumped together as "extremists," are striving earnestly to secure and maintain industrial peace. Mr. avage himself describes this coming conerence as similar in character and purpose to ? etween em ployers and trade to ohvint W " f r . e now in P ro gress at Home warfare, and it is to be T y """ in New Zealand, as in eo^dm-"^' 4 attempls to radish ™r ble re i ati r inf. ft. dawn „ t a teald -