PEACE IN INDUSTRY CONFERENCE OPENED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 98, 7 December 1928, Page 5

PEACE IN INDUSTRY CONFERENCE OPENED

I PROBLEMS OF EMPLOYt ERS and workers

APPEAL FOR BETTER UNDER- / standing. LEAVE PREJUDICES OUTSIDE " DOOR. (Received 9.30 a.m,) 1 MELBOURNE, This Day. .... The Pence Industry Conference, JiX which prominent employers’ representatives, commercial, shipping and 'other interested parties, together with Trade Union .officials throughout Australia are»' opMawd with ■SBra* Wallace Bruce, a former Lord Mayor of Adelaide, us chairman. ’

The convenor of the Conference, Mr James MacDougall (chairman of the - Associated Chambers of facturers), appealed to delegates to leave prejudices outside the door, hasten slowly, aiid make a sincere effort to understand each other. He regretted the absence of the Austra-j liap^Workers’ 1 Union delegates, i.;who;' were holding. aloof. He added, that this was the first deliberate clespre, to learn something of each other, s viewpoint. A message was roadj from the > Governor-General saying: “The ideal before you is of suclr vital’ importance tb the prosperity of' this' beautiful country and its people that; the prayers of all will he offered for its attainment.”

Mf W. Duggan, President' of'the Austraian Council of Trade Unions, said he was convinced every employer 'was not tyrannical hfe. was an'employer, just as every worker was not a striker because he tried to .improve his working conditions. Mr Duggan added: “W e realise that industry is the goose, that: lays the-golden, eggs, and while, we may>qnarrel. over- the distribution pf th e : eggs we have no desire to - kill thfe'gdosei-’--rAuatraian Press Assn.