TRIPS FOR. UNION LEADERS

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1949, Page 7

TRIPS FOR. UNION LEADERS

WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. A suggestion that New Zealand trade union leaders should be enabled to visit • other countries to study the attitude of workers to their employers, was made by the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand (Sir David Smith), in an address to the British-American Cooperation Society in Wellington. Student exchanges between different countries were merely beginning, he said. If international education was to be an effective weapon against world strife, it should be, more widespread and available to larger numbers. Overseas study should not be confined to university students. Trade union leaders should also have the opportunity of going to other lands. “There they would see the attitude of the worker abroad to his work, and estimate the desire for cooperation between worker and employer,” said Sir David Smith. “Their observations would be for the good of the community on their return to New Zealand. Student exchange is one of the most useful methods of dealing with the difficulties of the world.”