INDUSTRIAL PEACE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 July 1928, Page 11

INDUSTRIAL PEACE

LATE EDITION

w ■ ESSENTIAL TO EMPIRE DOMINION.’S POTENTIALITIES WASTEFULNESS OF STRIKES. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright.)

(Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, July 9.

Ther« was a crowded meeting of the Industrial Peace Union and the Empire Trade League at Mansion House. The Lord Mayor, who presided, said that he agreed to the amalgamation because the objects' of the two bodies were similar. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, of New •Zealand, cabled saying that he was , sympathetic towards the project. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, an ex-Prime Minister of New Zealand, wrote to similar effect-. The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery :and Sir' Robert Horne quoted the experiences of their recent tours, proving the necessity of industrial peace to ensure the development of the Empire. Mr. Amery said that the unlimited resources of the Dominions were capable of providing profitable employment for additional millions, provided the capitalists l recognised their economic trust. It was in their own interests that Labour should be well paid.. The chief hindrance to the Dominions was the uncertainty of finding markets for their products, consistent with their high standard - of wages. Security would ensure markets both in .Britain and the Dominions. Sir Robert Horne said that the Dominions needed industrial peace equally with Britain. He quoted Mr. Hoover’s slogan that prosperity was dependent on the elimination of waste. He cited as evidence of the wastefulness' of strikes a British Labour Parliamentarian’s estimate of tbe direct losses • due to British strikes as bebetween 1500 and 25,000 millions-, irrespective of indirect loss.