No Desire to Kill the Goose

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 7

No Desire to Kill the Goose

PEACE IN INDUSTRY MEETING OF EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS’ UNIONS (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright) L Australian Pi ess assn. ] MELBOURNE, Dec. 7. The peace in industry conference, in which prominent employers’ representatives, commercial, shipping and other interests, wit. trade union officials throughout Australia are participating, opened to-day with Sir Wallace Bruce, former Lord Mayor of Adelaide, as chairman. The convener of the conference, Mr James MacDougall (chairman of the Associated Chambers of Manufacturers) appealed to the delegates to leave prejudices outside the door and hasten slowly to make a sincere effort to understand each other. He regretted the absence of the Australian Workers’ Union delegates, who were holding aloof. A message was read from the Gov-ernor-General as follows: “The ideal before you is of such vital importance to the prosperity of this beautiful country and people that the prayers of all will be offered for its attainment.”

Mr W. Duggan (president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions) said that he was convinced that not every employer was tyrannicM because he was an employer, just as every worker was not a striker because he tried to improve his working conditions. Mr Duggan added: “We realise that industry is the goose that lays the golden eggs, and while we may quarrel over the distribution of the eggs we have no desire to kill the goose. ’ ’