COMMON INTEREST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1941, Page 6

COMMON INTEREST

EMPLOYERS AS BODY

WELDING OF ASSOCIATIONS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WANGANUI. April 6,

"I feel that the day has now come when all sections of employers should be firmly welded into one large organisation which would strengthen our hands and perhaps result in more liberal consideration than we have had to accept, in the past." said the president of the New Zealand Employers' Federation. Mr. B. Sutherland, Wellington, when addressing members of the Wanganui Employers' Association tonight.

"It may be said that there are different sections which have different interests, but I see no reason why all sections cannot have their own problems dealt with by their own organisation and then unite on all policy matters and matters of common interest," Mr. Sutherland added. "It may be held that it is necessary to have separate associations. I quite agree that it is necessary that each section should face its own particular problems, but in the ultimate result, by combining into one organisation, there could be a general committee formed of representatives of each section which should then be the controlling body of the various sections. This would tend to bring about a stronger force in our organisation."

It was most essential that New Zea-

land should have a strong organisation, particularly because of the desire of some people who sat in judgment in Parliament to socialise all industries and take away the right of private enterprise from the people.

"This Dominion and the British Empire have been built, up and stand today with a strength due only to the enterprise of (heir subjects," said Mr. Sutherland. "To take away the right of private enterprise from people or a nation is to remove the incentive to strive for that independence which has been responsible for the progress of this country and the Empire."