A NEW ERA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 September 1927, Page 5

A NEW ERA

RELATIONS BETWEEN EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE

BRITISH RAILWAYS CO-OPERA-TION POLICY.

LEAD LIKELY TO BE FOLLOWED (By Cable-Press Assn. - Copyright.) (Received 26, 12.15 p.m) London, Sept. 25. “We may well opine that a new era in the relations between employers and employed in British industry has arisen,” says the “Daily News’ commenting on the London and Mid-land-Scottish railways’ new co-opeia tiou policy initiated by Sir Josiah Stamp, the company’s president. This embodies joint meetings of railwaymen and officials in the principal centres. Meetings already held indicate that the men are willingly responding to the appeal tor mutual vuurv . improve the company’s position. ’There is little reason to' doubt, add the “Daily News,” “that tin lead given to railwaymen is likely i. be tollowed. Already it is announce, that workers of the wool industry, replying to employers, suggest the appointment in a eotnn....c,: to consider the position of the industry, especially the possibility of closer cooperation between employers and the trade unions. Those movements are significantly in accord with Mr Hicks’ outspoken appeal for co-operation at the Trade Union Congress.”—(A. and N.Z.)