F.O.L. Wants More Production

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30741, 4 May 1965, Page 3

F.O.L. Wants More Production

(Neto Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 3. New Zealand’s most urgent need was to increase production. This could be best achieved by giving the workers responsible their fair share of increased production and the national income, said the annual report of the Federation of Labour, whose conference will begin on May 11.

New Zealand needed to increase her production in both quality, value, and volume, said the report. “Wage earners throughout New Zealand have performed their part in these efforts in the past. They will continue to do so. “They will do so with greater enthusiasm, skill and responsibility when they enjoy their share of increased production and the national income.” said the report. New Zealand’s present economic system was a paradox, Living Cost Remits (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 3. Sixteen of the 132 remits to come before the Federation of Labour’s annual conference concern the cost of living spiral and measures urged to be taken to meet it. Eight remits cover measures against nuclear weapons and the planned nuclear tests by France in the Pacific. Seven are on Vietnam and oppose New Zealand taking part in the war there and elsewhere in South-east Asia. Two remits oppose military training and one opposes New Zealand taking part in sporting fixtures with South Africa. Several remits call for a 35hour working week. Others seek three weeks' and four weeks’ annual holiday, plus extra public and statutory holidays. Several remits also deal with problems of industrial safety, and such matters as compensation for death and injury to workers.

the report said. Production was a social achievement of the many workers, but the greater gains went to the few individual owners. “The ultimate problem is to eliminate the contradiction between the methods of production and the forms of ownership. “If increased returns are the incentive to those who own and sell the products of industry, then increased remuneration is the incentive and the necessary condition for those who work in industry.” Also required was a higher degree of security for the young, the sick and the aged. The members of all the unions affiliated to the federation were pleased to note that new markets were being exploited and were likely to become available for New Zealand meat, butter, cheese, timber and processed vegetable products. The wage earners were also delighted with the upward movements in the prices of export products. These gains would open the way to importing more raw materials for the secondary industries which employed most New Zealand workers. Farmers played a very vital part in New Zealand’s economy. But the wage and salary earners also played a very wide part in production, said the report.

NINETEEN members of the Chelsea first division soccer club arrived in Rome from London on Sunday on their way to Australia for a six-week, 10-match tour.