PEACE IN INDUSTRY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20316, 26 January 1928, Page 9

PEACE IN INDUSTRY

THE TRADES UNION COUNCIL. POWER TO ACT AT CONFERENCE. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 24. Mr W. M. Citrine, on behalf of the Trades Union Council, contests the contention that the unions did not give the council power to participate in the Industrial Peace Conference. He says that the Edinburgh Congress invested the General Council with the requisite authority to seek a basis on the agreed principals.—A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable. DISCUSSIONS TO CONTINUE. LONDON, January 24. The Trades Union General Council decided to continue the discussion with the representative group of employers through a committee consisting of Messrs Turner, Thomas, Bevin, Citrine, Pugh, Thorne, and Richards, who are drafting an interim report for the executives of the affiliated unions.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

CAPITAL AND LABOUR. IMPROVEMENT IN RELATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, January 24. Mr Reginald M’Kenna, chairman of the Midland Bank, at the general meeting of shareholders, said that the hopes expressed a year ago that 1927 would witness the dawn of a new. era in industrial relationship and an upward trend in pros perity nad been fulfilled. There had undoubtedly been a great improvement in the relations between Capital and Labour, and a gradual but steady recovery of trade following the grave difficulties through which the country had passed in 1926. He did not suggest that there was, cause for unbounded optimism. The problems yet before the country were numerous and complicated, but the background was brighter than it was a year ago.