BRITISH INDUSTRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23481, 19 October 1939, Page 13

BRITISH INDUSTRY

SKILLED WORKERS BENEFIT BONDS' "PAID ON OUTPUT Industrially, the United Kingdom probably offers the highest standard *9, skilled workers," said Mr. "illiam Good fellow, managing director ■ of Amalgamated Dairies, Limited, and of the Challenge Phosphate Company, Limited, in an interview yesterday fol-Jo-'yiug a >, business visit to Great Britain, Europe and the United States. 'The almost universal method is to P a .v a minimum wage, plus a bonus on output," lie stated. "By this means, the niorx" efficient an employee becomes, no greater' the reward, and increased Piofits are shared between capital and labour. I'he larger concerns are, in rnany cases, giving very special attention to staff welfare, with the result nat there is practically no industrial trouble."

Jhrotighout Groat Britain, it was ecognist'd tliat capital and labour must o-op unite to yet results, and that it tas the floods produced and not capi--1 itl P a 'd f he uagr.s—therefore. the tV -'i'l- U/ I ,r °d>iction per employee, 1,1 higher the wages. "1 wonder how longer it will take the labour nions of Xew Zenlnnd to realise and c ,,°" that simple truth," he observed. ,„i ,!' r ' ll « to Amalgamated Dairies r if ,! n H n '° Dairies, Limited, .Mr. i stntl 'd that their dairy proce business was easily the largest v; nir >st 'influential in the United 1 CRuum a lid under the new war reguj . 10ns the ('binnnnie.s would be selling r y produce for the British Government. T| K ,.. | ;Uo Ml . j n Wpieht< I ' ! In ~ ,n " director of Kmuire Dairies, o.' appointed D'rector of Dairy npiios British Government. r u ""til his recent and unexpected hp 'i, nrl ~M > res pon si hi lity of tnf-fi ,or f ' ll? P'irchnse of the m,;' of butter and cheese reed by the United Kingdom.