INDUSTRIAL RECONSTRUCTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15041, 16 October 1919, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL RECONSTRUCTION.

'Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) w\ nisti-allau and N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON, Oct. 14. j The Government has resumed negotiations with the railwaymen in accordance with the terms of the strike settlement. Mr. Cramp is of opinion that the negotiations will be carried on with the utmost harmony. Mr. J. B. Clynes considers that the next three- months will be a decisive period in industrial reconstruction. The workers are clearly pressing for the stabilisation of the standards of national l^fe and are determined that washes shall not recede to pre-war leveh Mr. Clynes believes that the Government and other employers can be ' induced to grant the new standard.. He urges that a joint council f should be developed out of the existing bodies as the best medium' of mediation and'eonciliation. The issue must shortly. -be faced whetrfer problems are to' be smoothly solved or the country is to' be plagued_ with an endless series of industrial crises. He is hopeful that workers can be persuaded to give the maximum of efficiency necessary if granted improved conditions. _ . LONDON, October 15', The Daily Exnrftss states that the National Industrial Counoil, scheme is in danger, owing to tlie Labor members presenting the Government, with an ttltimatum demanding the of the decision to exclude agricultural workers from the Forty-eight Hours' Bill. The decision .was- made without consultation with eitfier the masters, or the men or the*' lndustrial Council. X Indeed, the Employers' Council agree to the demand for a reversal of the decienon. . The Government Labor members have called a meeting for to-anprrow to decide whether the whole scheme be dropped. Tlie Moderate Labor members are generally anxious regarding the outlook, especially as it was hoped one result of the railway strike would have been to make the unions anxious to test the Industrial Council scheme. If it. collapses it means that the chances of a great forward industrial movement on- constitutional lines and direct collaboration with employers will He endangered . WASHINGTON,' Oct. 14. The National Industrial Conference adjourned in confusion, unable to agree to Mr. Chadbourne'a resolution on behalf of .the publio group, proposing the adoption of a plan to settle industrial d'.s■putes as a substitute 'for the Labor group's proposal demanding arbitration in the steel strike.