A WORKING BASIS
Is America ready to give to the world a new industrial-social revelation? To test this question, the Commonwealth Government proposes to send to the United States an industrial delegation representative of both the employer and the employee; ptid. the Government hopes that the delegation may discover the secret whereby (it is said) the Americans, without any violent revolution or rupture of property laws, have succeeded in abolishing "ca'canny," and in getting both Capital and Labour to work, their best. But if the Americans have really succeeded in evolving a successful working basis between Capital and Labour, within the framework of the property lav,;s and of existing society, is it likely that such a discovery would be confirmed by an Australian delegate who has performed the Moscow pilgrimage and who has identified himself with the Russian revolution and with the Communist attitude to Western society? The difficulty implied "by this question arises because New South Wales labour bodies nominated Mr. J. S. Garden' as one of the Labour delegates. The Commonwealth Government's objection to him 'was foreseen; and it was calculated that objection to Mr. Garden would lead to repudiation of the mission by Australian Labour—which programme, according to yestorday's cablegrams, seems to be working towards fulfilment. The plain fact of the situation is that the American methods are entitled to judicial consideration, and that Mr. Garden isa prejudiced partisan opposed to them on principle. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1927, Page 6
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237A WORKING BASIS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1927, Page 6
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