TRADE UNION LEADERS

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25736, 23 February 1949, Page 4

TRADE UNION LEADERS

VISITS TO OVERSEAS COUNTRIES UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR’S SUGGESTION (P.A.) WELLINGTON. February 22. • A suggestion that New Zealand trade union leaders should be enabled to visit other countries to study the attitude of workers to their employers, was made by the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand (Sir David Smith), in an address to the BritishAmerican Co-operation Society to-day Student exchanges between different countries were merely beginning, he said. If international education was to be an effective weapon against world strife, it should be more widespread,

and. available to larger numbersOverseas study should not be conflnea to university students. Trade union leaders should also have the opportunity of going to other lands. . “There they would see the of the worker abroad to his work, ana estimate the desire for co-opew 1 ™; between worker and employee.” sa’ 3 Sir David Smith. “Their tions would be for the good of w community on their return to w®* Zealand. • . “Student exchange is one or “r most useful methods of dealing the difficulties of the world.”