INDUSTRIAL PEACE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 240, 11 July 1928, Page 11

INDUSTRIAL PEACE

ESSENTIAL TO EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT

DOMINIONS’ UNLIMITED RESOURCES

MIGHT FIND EMPLOYMENT FOR MILLIONS MORE

At a meeting of the Industrial Peace Union, and the Empire Trade Union, when it was agreed to amalgamate, Mr. Amery said (he unlimited resources of (he Dominions vycre capable of providing profitable employment for additional millions. provided capitalists recognised the new economic truth that it was to their interests that labour should bo well paid.

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A crowded meeting of the Industrial Peace Union and the Empire Trade League at the Mansion House, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, agreed to amalgamate because the objects of the two bodies were similar. Mr. Coates, Premier of New Zealand, cabled ' sympathetically, and Sir Thomas Mackenzie, ex-Premier of New Zealand, wrote similarly. Mr. Amery and Sir Robert Horne quoted experiences of their recent tours, proving the necessity of industrial peace to insure the development of the Empire. Mr. Amery said that the unlimited resources of the Dominions were capable of providing profitable employment for additional millions, provided the capitalists recognised the new economic truth that it was to their own interests that labour should be well paid. The chief hindrance to the development of the Dominions was the uncertainty of tinding markets for their products consistent with their high standard of wages. Security would insure the markets both in Britain and the Dominions.

Sir Robert Horne said that, the Dominions needed industrial peace equally with Britain. He quoted Mr. Hoover's slogan: “Prosperity is dependent on the elimination of waste,” and cited as evidence the wastefulness of strikes. British Labour members of Parliament estimated the direct losses of British strikes at from 15,000 to 25,000 millions sterling, irrespective of the indirect loss. OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT LORD LOVAT’S VISIT TO DOMINIONS(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, July 9. Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, Under-Sec-retary for the Colonies, stated, in reply to a question, that no special directions had been drafted for the purpose of the impending visit to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand of Lord Lovht, Under-Secretary for the Dominions. Lord Lovtit hoped to discuss matters relating to overseas settlement with the authorities and any representatives of any organisation in the Dominions which he was visiting, and to negotiate such an extension of the present policy as might appear feasible. It was not intended that any scheme should be held up until the conclusion of the tour. All cognate subjects relating to emigration, it was stated, would be under review.