INDUSTRIAL ISSUES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 219, 15 September 1943, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL ISSUES

MOVE FOR MORE HARMONY

NATIONAL PARTY AIMS (P.A.) OAMARU, this day. Speaking to a large and enthusiastic audience in Oamaru last night, the Leader of the National party, Mr. Holland, referred to decentralisation and said New Zealand had lost its industrial balance. There were too many unskilled workers and too few skilled craftsmen and tradesmen doing jobs to build homes for the people. There was a shortage of 70,000 houses for the present population. When New Zealand servicemen returned from overseas nothing could be more useful than to train them so they could build homes for themselves. They would be entitled to well-paid and creative employment. The National party proposed to set up an organisation to train returned men in employment of their own choice. . , . . . . . Mr. Holland dealt with industrial relations, stating that they would never get anywhere while a gulf existed between the employer, and the worker. Ninety-five per cent of the workers were decent, honest men and women and were anxious to do a fair day's work for a fair day's wages, but the trouble lay in the 5 per cent of imported industrial troublemakers, whose only success was m destroying the success of others, lhe National party proposed to remove the causes of industrial troubles by the establishment of an industrial harmony bureau to investigate the causes of the troubles. It also proposed a co-operative scheme to increase the rewards of industry.