EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

Grey River Argus, 23 September 1911, Page 5

EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

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(Red.. 11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 22. At tho annual meeting of the Employers' Federation the retiring-,: president, jn his- address, said tho. present yean in regards to strikes and unrest, stands alone in ..the'., whole .in: dustrial- life of- the Commonwealth State. Tho seething unrest is hardly- possible to realise ,and the unr happy position, of . employer and employee and the stand for ±ho word " freedom " is almost unknown as far as the '~ .employe! is concerned. Until the' employers are more true to themselves and shake off the chain or selfishness.. ..-.the, present . unforsfcu- . Nato description will . continue- and must be firm in protecting their rights, without being, unduly aggressive. Something 1 shouid be dona to separata -. the 1 political •element; from trades unionism. The prosperity and happiness of the' country must be freed of the strangling grip oi" the" caucus wrcsp'ohs-ibles,' who at tho pnes'eat time are framing 1 laws dictating to ' their 'representatives what they wish done, and thus piroventing good and equitable' laws being ' 'enacted. The annual report iieferr^d to the need of organising. The work of the !iabou'T agitaton was adversely criticised,, and a certain provision' in -the Industrial Arbitration Bill, as likely to wo.r.k imost injuriously not only against the ■employer, but against the interests of industrial peace. .