INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15540, 23 August 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

BPEECIIKS BY EMPLOYERS.

(Per United Piibss Association.)

C'ImiSTCHURCH, August 22. At the annual racetinc of tho Canterbury Employers' Association to-night the retiring president, Mr K. 1\ England, referred ut Jciigtu to tho sUito of tho industrial mind in New Zealand. ,

Ho said that it was unfortunate that in ; i New Zoalund there should ho a small see l * lion who delisted in industrial war, and / who did not hesitate, even on the slitchtest pretext, to oauso damage to tho industries Y? of the country. It would bo necessary in ■;= the near future for tho legislators to intro-. ? duce restrictions to act as a check upon iin-, ',i justifiable strikes, It wai rcmarkablo that i in a country such as Now Zealand thoro 'J should have urown up what mifjlit bo termed a broad, distinguishable lino between tho J employers ami employees, and a marked tie- i termination on tho jiart of the worker to ' look upon tho employer as a natural onomy, ' Jf tho employer had to deal simply with tlio actual union workers tbero would bo moro , oonlidoneo. If tho workers would only get „* rid of the idea that they were necessarily ; opposed to tho employers, and if they all mado use of their best endeavours to introduce that friendly relationship that shouldbo between employer and omployed, then ■ only could they hope to get rid of industrial unrest, all of which was much do- •; plorcd. ,'j

Addresses were given by Mr W. Hopkins (president of the Employers' Federation) and •Mr T._ S. Weston (vice-president of tho fc. federation); troth depreciating tho ovil influence and offices of the professional agi- t;' tators. '4: