INDUSTRIAL MISSION

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 April 1927, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL MISSION

THE PRESS EXCLUDED.

UNIONISM v. OPEN SHOP. THE LATTER PREFERRED. BY' CABLE—PRES? ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, April 18. The Australian Industrial Mission has received a cable from the Rt. HOll. S. M. Bruce (Prime Minister of Australia), which Air Murphy says places power in the mission’s hands to exclude the Press. The decision to exclude the Press is not likely to be reversed, as the employers’ n presenta.t<ive», excepting Mr Campbell, are- supporting the Labour representatives rather than have a split. Air Murphy announced that the itinerary would not be (’lengthened to the . xteiit of preventing the consideration of the report before leaving.

While inspecting Julius Kayser and •Company's factory at Brooklyn, the mission was informed that there was a wide distinction between unions to-day and in the past. The factory was an op 'n- shoo because the unions almost ruined plant 1 . Under unionism it- would take foin years to learn the trade, while •iiulor ©resent, conditions an emp’oyee was- trained in six months to earn big money. Harmony had existed between the management and the employees for the past seven years.

One of the workers representatives stated that he had interviewed many r©' 1 1”. who were perfectly sate fted with the present conditions.