INDUSTRIAL MISSION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9

INDUSTRIAL MISSION

VISIT TO AMERICA

LESSONS LEARNED

(United Ptkss Association^— Copyricht.) (Beceived 20th June, 8 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, 18th June.

The Australian ludustrial Mission's itinerary during the final month has been as strenuous as during the earlier periods. Evidence has been substantially the same, and cannot nflfect the impressions gained before the visit to Washington. Members inspected the Carnegie Steel, Westinghouse Electric, and Heinz companies' works, ait Pittsburgh, and the Goodyear Bubbe>: Company at Akron. The mission wivs welcomed at Cleveland at luncheon fc'y em;' ployers. Mr. Homer Johnson, a Cleveland attorney, toasting the mission, condemned the extremism of Italy and Bnssia, and said such doctrines were not acceptable to Ani'loSaxons. •

Mr. Grayndler, responding, said that' in view of his leaving the mission tomorrow, en route for Australia, he felt impelled to express his appreciate of the unlimited hospitality received, and thanked business men and Chambers of Commerce for their kindness. It had always been a pleasure to meet them. Australia's development. of the inter- < ior was necessarily slow. Though population was needed people could not be dumped unless there were jobs available for them. Australia was committed to compulsory arbitration, and no party could survive if it supported its abolition. Australia had passed through the barbarous methods of industrial warfare, and if the courts had not been established fighting would have continued. As wars; industrial or otherwise, were ended by conferences, Australian unions advocated conferences first. Arbitration, unless compulsory, was useless, as experience had taught. Industrial movement advocated ■ constituptional methods, and he believed in the political activities of the ■ Australian unions, but defended American labour's non-partisan political beliefs. If he were an American he would do the same as the Federation of Labour had done. .He condemned the Communists". Their beliefs would never upply to Britishers, he said, as Communism was a negation of constitutional policy. He believed his union was fighting Communists more vigorously than the employers and the Government. : Communists -should be footed out and returned to the countries to which they belonged. He sbeheved. that the mission's inquiries would be of great benefit to Australia. ■ . - : ■ y.. x : , $i v&Y-M'Neil,;replying fox the employers, said he did not agree with all Mr ; Gfayndler had said. He recalled Mr. Green's (President of the American Federation of Labour) statement that he did not expect more from .industry than the amount inserted. This had been demonstrated in America to a remarkable extent. Unless capital, management, and labour worjked together chaos resulted. Scientific management, in America was impressive, and he concluded that Australia knew little about it. Australia in austries wanted money, but American industries could not know such shortage. Americans would find Anstraliii a great outlet for their surplus dol-; lars. ■