INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 October 1927, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

ENCOURAGING PROGRESS. MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN. EMPLOYERS’ RESOLUTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 21. The committee for ensuring continuance of peace in British industry, which has been endorsed by leading employers and Labour officials, is making encouraging progress, - and it is understood that a meeting will shortly he held between the leading employers and the general council of the 1 rude Union Congress. The movement received a stimulus at the recent Trade Union Congress when, in the words of a statement subsequently issued, the congress leaders, with the unqualified support of the union delegates, accepted responsibility for the policy of co-operation m an endeavour to work out a practical solution of industrial troubles by methods of conciliation. It gave a definite repudiation of the militant poliev with which the minority is identified. It signified determination to exhaust all the possibilities of negotiation, and the conference is dealing with- the immediate difficulties affecting the economic life of the country. Yesterday the employers’ national organisation for dealing with labour questions affecting the employers as a whole issued a resolution endorsing unreservedly both the desire for industrial peace expressed at the Trade Union Congress and the opinion that this could be achieved by the combined efforts of the employers and the employed themselves. It suggests that industrial peace can most surely bo built up by the. organisations and people concerned, particularly by a display of goodwill by those in daily contact with the works.

Mr. Ramsay (MacDonald, speaking at Colchester yesterday, expressed his confidence in the development of the movement, and said he believed most profundly that the establishment of goodwill and useful co-operation by the two sides in industry could and would he effected.