THE WAGE EARNERS

Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 6

THE WAGE EARNERS

GO-OPERATION IN INDUSTRY m SNOWDEN'S ADVICE (British Official News.) Preu Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, January 25. (Received January 26, at noon.) Speaking last night, Mr Philip Snowdon (who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labor Government) said he anticipated that the conference with the employers would effect a great change for better industrial relations. There was only an extreme minority among the workers who refused to accept responsibility for cooperation in industry. He said he could conceive of no folly more colossal than the possibility of some sudden and revolutionary act to change the existing industrial system and then immediately to build up and erect a new and superior industrial order. Progress was not made that way. The true class division to-day was not between the employers and the workmen, hut between those who put their selfish interests foremost, and those who were willing to sacrifice their individual interests for the common good. _ To say that the lot of the wage-earning class could not be improved under the existing system was sheer nonsense. Improvement in the past had been won not by fighting hut by co-operation among the workers. The_ limit of improvement under the existing order had not been reached.