AMERICAN INDUSTRIES

Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 5

AMERICAN INDUSTRIES

AUSTRALIAN MISSION'S INQUIRIES VISIT TO DETROIT. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, March 29. The Australian Industrial Mission completed its inquiries _ at Detroit. Dividing into three parties, the members inspected a number of industries in which women are engaged. Mr Carl Seehoffer, professor of economics at Detroit University, stated that any difficulties at Detroit were caused by antagonism between Capitalism and the unions rather than between Capital and Labor. Unemployment was becoming serious owing to slackness in the automobile industry. While unemployment was inevitable, it would be minimised when industries were stabilised throughout the year. He declared emphatically that it would have been impossible to have developed the automobile industries under Australian union conditions.

_ Commenting on the visit of the mislion to Detroit, the ‘ Free Dress ’ says that what the nature, intelligence, •nergy, and grit of the pioneers accomplished for America’s economic expansion should prove easy to the hardy men and women of Australia, especially when they find themselves nole to avoid America’s mistakes and benefit by her successful experiments in industrial and labor organisations.