Industrial Welfare.
Tiie largest private buyer or steel in Britain. Tube Investments, Limited, a group of manufacturing companies, has found that catering for the welfare of its employees has paid dividends. The chairman and managing director of the group, Mr. I. A. R. Stedeford. who is at present visiting Christchurch, said that there has been virtually no trade dispute in the group, which employs 30.000 to 35.000 men, during the last 10 years. Long before the national health scheme was introduced the firm had dental and doctors’ services and pensions for the staff, which had helped to create confidence between (lie men and the management. Since the war a training centre for selected candidates, a foremen’s residential school, and a day continuation school for youths had been introduced. He understood the foremen’s school was "nique. It had been so successful that there might at some time be one on a national basis, said Mr. Stedeford.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23219, 3 April 1950, Page 3
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