GOODWILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19871, 20 June 1927, Page 7

GOODWILL

CAPITAL AND LABOUR Secret of Success of American Industry AUSTRALIANS’ TOUR DANGER OF COMMUNISM [By Telegraph —Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. (A.&N.Z.) WASHINGTON, Juue 18. The Australian Industrial Mission’s itinerary during the final month of the tour has been as strenuous as during the earlier periods. Eviidjence has been substantially the same, and cannot affect the impressions gained before Washington was reached.

Members inspected the Carnegie Steel, Westinghouse Electric, and Heinz companies at Pittsbuigh and the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akion. Representatives of the Goodyear employees attended a a-inner given the Australians and testified, to the success of the company’s union plan, praising the efforts for co operation and the general goodwill between employers and employees.

Mr Grayndler, the chairman, in responding eulogised the company, saying that if the same square deal were given the workers in Australia, the company coula rely upon the support of his union, both industrially and politically. High wages were a success in America because the people wore able to purchase more, increasing the stand? ard of living. Extremists Condemned The Mission was welcomed at Cleveland at a luncheon by employers. Mr Homer Johnson, Cleveland, attorney, toasting the Mission, condemned the extremism of Italy and; Russia and sail such doctrines were unacceptable to Anglo-Saxons. Mr Grayndler, in responding, said in view of his leaving the Mission tomorrow for Australia, he expressed appreciation of the unlimited hospitality received, and thanked the business men and the chambers of commerce for their kindness. It had, always been a pleasure to meet them. Austrilia’s development of the interior was -necessarily slow. Though population was needed, people could not be dumped, unless there were jobs available. Australia was committed to compulsory arbitration, and no party could survive if it supported its abolition. Australia had passed through barbaious methods of industrial warfare, and if the ( ourts had- not been established, the fighting would have cot tinned. As wars, industrial or other iV’se. were eiUujea by conferences, tho Aus-lral-u.L unions advocated conferences fir-t. Arbitration, unless compulseiy, was useless, as experience had taught. The industrial movement advocated constitutional methods He believed in the political activities of the Australain unions, but defended American Labour’s non-partisan political beliefs. If he were an American he would do the same as the Federation of Labour had done. Scientific Management Mr Grayndler condemned the Communists. Their belief's would never a PPIy to Britishers, he said, as Communism was a negation of a constitutional policy. Ho believed his union was lighting the Communists more vigorously than the employers and the Government. Communists should be rooted out and returned to the countries where they belonged. He believed the Mission’s inquiries would be of great benefit to Australia. Mr McNeil replied that the employers did not agree with all Mr Grayndler had said. He recalled Mr Green’s statement ,that he did not expect more from industry than the amount invested,. This had been demonstrated in America to a remarkable extent. Unless Capital and Labour worked together, chaos resulted. Scientific management in America was impressive. He concluded that Australia knew l.ttle about it. The Australian industries wanted money and American industries would find Australia a great outlet for surplus dollars.