Federal Trade Unions Agree On Greater Output

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26906, 19 October 1948, Page 5

Federal Trade Unions Agree On Greater Output

N.Z.P.A.—Copyright SYDNEY, Oct. 18. The Trade Union Conference ended with delegates agreeing that increased output was necessary. In doing this they stipulated that safeguards, would have to be provided to protect the worker against exploitation and speed-ing-up methods, and to ensure that there was no profiteering or inequality in the distribution of the national wealth. _ The conference defeated a Left Wing move that no production increases could be expected unless workers’ grievances over wages and prices were removed. , _ . When a delegate asked the Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, what would hap-’ pen to the workers when there was a surplus of production, Mr Chifley said; “I am not going to fool anyone. No guarantee can be given that any workers can stay put in any industry. They may have to be transferred to other industries in other places, but the Government’s policy is jobs for all, all the time.”