SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 September 1921, Page 5

SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

VALUE OF SCOUT MOVEMENT

INTERESTING VIEWS ON WAGE

SETTLEMENTS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

LONDON, Sep. 9. Bishop "Welldon's committee of the British association, appointed in 1920 to report on the training in citizenship describes General Baden Powell's BoyScouts and Girl Guides' lesson as the most effective training on the social side.

Mr W. Ti. Hftchens, chairman o* Cammell and Laird Shipbuilders' Co. and president of the economic section of the British Association, discussed the principles of wage determination-. He condemned compulsory arbitration, preferring a mutual agreement between employers and employed. He did not believe in profit sharing as a solution of the problem of the fair distribution of "the proceeds of industry, and did not support the scheme of .single men wages with allowances for wives and _ children. That remedy was-worse than the disease. It would have to be administered by the State, and he could not imagine a more detestable form of I State socialism.