GETTING TOGETHER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 64, 2 March 1929, Page 5

GETTING TOGETHER

EMPLOYERS AND TRADES UNIONS. INVITATION TO CONFERENCE ACCEPTED. (United Press Association-By Cable— Copyright.) (“Times" Cable.! (Received 2, 9.30 a.m.) London, March 1. The Confederation of Employers* Organisations and the Federation of British Industries have received a letter from the Council of the Trade Union Congress accepting an invitation to a conference with both bodies. The letter greatly regretted the inability of the Confederation and the Federation to accept the interim report of the industrial peace conference but expressed a desire to hear their difficulties, so that national organisations on both sides would be enabled to come into touch. The council of the Trade Union Congress does not abandon the progress made nt the Melchett-Tumer conference, but hopes to make its recommendst’ons a starting point for an official | iterence with the employers. The I.U.C. council realises that the Employers’ Confederation deals with labour problems while the Federation deals with economic and commerciay questions. The council therefore attaches great importance to the meeting of a fully representative body of employers instead of negotiating piecemeal.