MUTUAL EFFORT

Southland Times, Issue 20538, 14 July 1928, Page 7

MUTUAL EFFORT

CAPITAL AND LABOUR CLOSER CO-OPERATION SOUGHT NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL ADVOCATED (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7.20 p.m.) Rugby, July 12. In accordance with the decision of the Mond-Turner joint conference for securing co-operation between Capital and Labour an interim report of the conference was yesterday submitted to two of the leading employers’ organizations. Special committees were set up by each to ascertain the views of members. The report, inter alia, recommends the creation of a National Industrial Council, the main function of which would be to hold regular meetings for the renewal of consultation on the widest questions concerning industry and industrial progress; to establish a joint standing committee for the appointment of joint conciliation boards and establish machinery for continuous investigation into industrial problems. The council of the Federation of British Industries, in referring the report to a committee, promised most sympathetic consideration of the recommendation and declared itself whole-heartedly in favour of the prime objects of the conference. The committee which the Federation has appointed will confer with the National Federation of Employers’ Organizations, the council of which passed a resolution yesterday recognizing the far-reaching nature of the questions raised and submitting a report to individual federations within its membership and referring it to a committee for a full report on the questions raised in the report. The Mond-Turner conference will be the principal subject of discussion at the sixth Trades Union Conference at Swansea in September, and the principle of closer co-opera-tion involved in the report will, it is expected, play a very important part in the elections to the new general council of the congress—British Official Wireless.