TRADE UNION (DEALS.
INCREASING STANDARD. A. and N.Z. LONDON. June 7.
Mr. H. Gosling, in his presidential address to the National Transport Workers' Federation at Newcastle, said that the tendency of organised Labour was to create industrial councils to obviate disputes and bring about a radical improvement in the lives and conditions of workers by amicable means, but he hoped that trade unionists would not slacken their efforts becai e their hopes were based on the creation of those organisations. The fact that employers were anxious to meet the unions nowadays was due to the increasing strength of the traie union movement. There was not any limit to be placed on the total wealth available for distribution amongst the various classes of the community, therefore he advised all to set a standard as high as possible, and when the standard was reached to raise the standard again. Owing to the affiliation of the amalgamated engineers, general workers, and ivonfounders, the trade union jubilee congress in September will represent 4,000,000 membersa record.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16872, 10 June 1918, Page 5
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