For Leisure
"There are those who take the view thafiso long as they provide steady employment and pay the standard rate of wages they have no responsibility for the way in which workpeople spend their leisure,” writes Captain J. G. Paterson, in “Industrial Welfare." “They say that the people are quite capable, of looking after their own affairs, and prefer to follow their own inclinations.
“It is not. a question of interfering with leisure, but rather of assisting people to make the best use of It. Whether.the facilities for this activity,, are provided by the firm or not is of little account, but in so far as the health and skill of the individual are intimate - ly involved, and in as much as the employer is Interested in individual efii ciency; he, cannot afford to ignore the potential vitalising effect of ordered and intelligently planned leisure occupation
“It is our business to devise and create the machinery which will bring to people engaged in industry In: the most convenient form all the available facilities which will enable them to make full use of their leisure.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 258, 28 July 1934, Page 20
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185For Leisure Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 258, 28 July 1934, Page 20
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