BETTER HARMONY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 December 1938, Page 11

BETTER HARMONY

WILL PREVAIL IN INDUSTRY j ARRANGING CONFERENCES AUCKLAND. 30th December. Appreciation of the readiness of interested parties in Auckland to go thoroughly into the working conditions of different industries was expressed by the Minister of Labour. Mr Webb, who said that as a result of recent discussions he was convinced that it would not be long before closer co-operation ancf better harmony would prevail in industry. “I have had similar discussions in Wellington.” Mr Webb continued. “I; will leave for the south on,Sunday and' will visit Dunedin, Invercargill and Christchurch, where I hope next week to contact similar organisations. I am convinced that the common sense of the people of this country will appreciate the need for better industrial organisation to ensure increased production and to enable our present standard of living to be maintained and improved.” Mr Webb said he would first confer with industrial organisations, manufacturers and producers to ascertain their point of view and also labour organisations, specially the New Zealand Federation of Labour. Following these discussions he hoped to arrange in each centre conjoint conferences of allparties concerned so that there might be evolved a more harmonious industrial machine.