HAND IN HAND

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 11, 14 July 1928, Page 9

HAND IN HAND

LABOUR AND CAPITAL FRUIT OF CONFERENCE CLOSER CO-OPERATION j - British Official Wireless. „; RUGBY, 12th July. In accordance with the ■ decision of the Mond-Turner Joint, Conference for securing co-operation between Capital and Labour, the interim report of the conference was yesterday- submitted to the two leading employers* organise tions. Special committees were set up by each to ascertain the .views of members. The report, inter alia, recommends the creation of a.' National Industrial Council, the main function* of which would be to hold regular meetings for the renewal of consultation on the widest questions concerning industry and industrial progress; to establish a Joint Standing/Committee for the appointment of. joint conciliation boards, and to establish machinery for continuous investigation into industrial problems. ' , EMPLOYEES AND EEPOET. The Council of the Federation of British Industries, in referring the report to the committee, promised a most sympathetic consideration of the recommendations and declared'- itself whole-heartedly in favour of the prime objects of the conference. , % The committee which the federation1 has appointed will confer with the National Federation of Employers' Organisations, the council of which passed a resolution yesterday recognising the far-reaching nature of the questions raised, and submitting a report to individual federations within its membership and referring it to a committee for full report. , Questions raised in the report of the Mond-Turner conference will be the principal subject of discussion at the sixth Trades Union Conference at Swansea in, September, and the prin-. e'iple of closer co-operation involved in the report will, it is expected, play a very important part in the elections to the new general council of the congress.