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DISCUSSIONS IN INDUSTRY MINISTER'S OBJECTIVE (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Saturday *T am convinced that it will not be long before closer co-operation aq,d better harmony will prevail in industry," stated the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, yesterday in expressing appreciation of the readiness of various interested parties in Auckland to go thoroughly into the working conditions of various industries. “I have had similar discussions in Wellington," Mr Webb continued. "1 will Icavp for the south on Sunday and will visit Dunedin, Invercargill and Christchurch, where I hope next week to contact similar organisations. 1 am convinced that the common sense of the people of this country will appreciate the need for better industrial organisation to ensure increased production to enable our present standard of living to be maintained and improved." Mr Webb said that he would first confer with industrial organisations, manufacturers and producers to ascertain their point of view, and also with the labour organisations, specially the Federation of Labour. Following these discussions he hoped to arrange in each centre conjoint conferences of all parties concerned in order that there might be evolved a more harmonious industrial machine.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20693, 31 December 1938, Page 2
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