“GO SLOW.”

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17329, 18 November 1916, Page 9

“GO SLOW.”

EMPLOYER’S STATEMENT. LOSSES THROUGH STRIKES. By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, November 17. At the annual meeting of the Employers’ Federation, the president quoted instances of the “go slow” policy. In Now South Wales alone the loss ran into many millions yearly. In one of the’ Federal factories men were turuing out a certain article at the rate of forty daily. One man easily did ninety, yet the present output was still forty. In the majority of industries the.output was 25 to 50 per cent less than it should be. During 1914-15 strikes had kept an average of 6000 employees idle. He regretted that the whole people here refused to be guided by their leaders. A spirit of selfishness) had allied itself with a disloyal section of the community with the object of preventing the Commonwealth redeeming her pledge to assist in the prosecution of the war to the end. Referring to returned soldiers who axe unfit, he said that a sustained effort was necessary, as the Wages Board awards had been ill-used, and the men were unable to secure proper remuneration.