INDUSTRIAL PEACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20499, 29 August 1928, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL PEACE

TRADES UNION COUNCIL. NEGOTIATIONS WITH EMPLOYEES. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, August 27. (Received August 28, at 7 p.m.) The report of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, to be held at Swansea next week, emphasises the importance of the issue of industrial cooperation which is referred to in negotiations with a group -£ employers and by Lord Melchett, formerly Sir Alfred Mond.

The report regards this development of trade union activity as one which will eii'.ble the unions to use their power to

promote and guide the scientific reorganisation of industry -\s well as to obtain material advantages from that reorganisation. It says that in supporting the continuance of negotiations the council has taken the only course that it was possible to take if the trade unions movement was to endu.e as a living, constructive force. That policy affords the best hope of raising the status, security, and the standard of living of the workers, whom the council represents. A very grave responsibility would have been taken by anyone who refused to consider the possibilities of such a course. Tht importance of the discussion which the council seeks authority to continue is dealt with in the report which recalls the circumstances in which for the first time in their history representatives of organised labour were invited to a group of important industrialists to discuss, first, the finance and management of industry. Secondly, new development's in technology and organisation; thirdly, the organisation of industry itself; and fourthly, means for assuring the status and security of the workers and the methods of achieving the highest possible standard of living for all. ,