INDUSTRIAL STAGNATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 May 1925, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL STAGNATION.

CONFERENCE WITH LABOUR. PREMIER AND LEADERS MEET. 1Y CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 10. The Daily News states that it is,reported that the Prime Minister (Mr Stanley Baldwin) and A. G. Steel Maitland, Minister for Labour, met prominent Trade Union leaders to discuss the existing industrial stagnation, i'he purpose of the meeting was to sound trade unionists regarding the Government summmoning a representative conference of employers and workers to discuss their mutual difficulties and to dear the way to a constructive programme to overcome the stagnation. Some trade unionists, notably Mr Thomas, favour a conference, hut others are strongly opposed to the idea, although Mr Baldwin, speaking at Birmingham recently, told the employers that they must not regard labour factors as being solely responsible or the high costs of production. He declared that watered capital, inefficient management and wasteful marketing also needed investigation.—Sydney Sun Cable.