INDUSTRIAL MISSION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 March 1927, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL MISSION.

AUSTRALIANS IN DETROIT. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, March 29. The Australian Industrial Mission has competed its inquiries at Detroit. Dividing into three parties, they were interested in inspecting a number of industries in. which women are engaged . Carl Seth offer, Professor of Economics at Detroit University, states that any difficulties at Detroit were caused by" antagonism between capitalism and tiie unions, rather than between capital and labour. Unemployment was becoming serious owing to slackness in the automobile industry. “While unemployment will lie inevitable, it will be minimised when the industries are stabilised throughout the year,” he said, and declared emphatically that it would have -b en impossible to have developed the automobile industries under Australian union conditions. _ . Commenting on the visit of the, mission to Detroit, the “Free Press” says that what the nature, # intelligence, energy and grit of the pioneers acconinl is lied for America’s economic expansion should prove easy to the hardy men and women of Australia, especially when th’"'’find themselves able to avoid America’s mistakes, and benefit by her successful experiments in industrial and' labour organisations.