EMPLOYERS’ ADVICE

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1946, Page 5

EMPLOYERS’ ADVICE

REMOVING DISCONTENT IN AUSTRALIA CONTROL OF LIVING COSTS (Rec. 11.15 n.m.) SYDNEY, August 5. In a manifesto issued yesterday, the Australian Council of Employers asks the Commonwealth to revise the structure of the basic wage and control the rising costs of living. The object of the manifesto is to counter factors which are inviting discontent among workers. It sets out the main causes of industrial unrest as rising living costs, a decline in purchasing power, taxation rates, housing problems, transport difficulties and the shortage of consumer goods. The council suggests lower taxation, •reduced Government expenditure, incentive payments to workers, a return to traditional respect for law and order and to the inherent right of management to manage, respect for the proved system of conciliation and arbitration, more arbitration tribunals and secret ballots to end industrial anarchy.