NEED FOR LOYALTY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 7

NEED FOR LOYALTY

EMPLOYEE AND HIS FIRM O.C. PALMERSTON N., This Day. "Loyalty is a very big factor in the lives of our young men, but today it) is a factor which has drifted somewhat and is not up to the standards of the past," said Mr. J. B. Stewart (Auckland), president of the New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce, when speaking to members of the Palmerston North junior chamber. He added: "The young business man must be unquestionably loyal—to his King, to his employer, and to himself. His loyalty to the King helps him to be a good citizen, his loyalty to his employer helps him to become a good executive and to promote the interests of both his employer and himself."

Mr. Stewart spoke of the development of antipathy between employer and employee and wished the community could get some of the spirit of the old English guilds, which were promoted by a spirit of co-operation between master and worker, for the betterment of the product. At present there was too much time dissipated because of the deyelopment of this antipathy. "We will have to find a way out, for it is one of the biggest problems of the day," he added. "After the war we will require the utmost production from every section of the community. This antipathy is a serious problem and we in the Chambers of Commerce will have to work the harder towards a solution of it."