NEVER BETTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 10

NEVER BETTER.

CORDIAL RELATIONS.

MANUFACTURERS —UNIONS. ! SATISFACTORY POSITION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. Relations between the officials at the Trades Hall and manufacturers have never been more cordial than they are at the present time (states the annual report of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association). At a recent meeting of the association's executive members expressed the opinion that the satisfactory position was the direct result of manufacturers conducting their own negotiations with the workers and to the very satisfactory and able manner in which these negotiations had been handled by tli© secretary (Mr. A. W. Nisbet). "When some two years ago the association decided to render full service to its mem be re in matters coming within the scope of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act," the report states, "a deciding factor was the conviction that industrial service must be the focal point around which successful trade groups could be built. Each month confirms the soundness of that view and serves to illustrate the disruptive effect on the federation of the lack of machinery to render such service on a Dominion basis. "Members are coming more and more to depend upon and take adv intage of the industrial service available. The reference of disputes with either the trades unions or the Labour Department to the association for settlement has effected for many of our members considerable saving of time, trouble and money. "The useful work undertaken by the secretary in tthe previous year in handling cases on behalf of members, both in Conciliation Council and the Arbitration Court, has been continued with conspicuous success. Mr. Nisbet possesses outstanding ability for this type of work, and it is regrettable that his services have not been utilised to a greater extent."