ANGLICAN CONGRESS TO PROBE QUESTION OF LABOUR UNREST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 42, 30 April 1948, Page 3

ANGLICAN CONGRESS TO PROBE QUESTION OF LABOUR UNREST

(Contributed by the Ministers’ Association) Because of events both in New Zealand and abroad, the question of improving industrial relationships has become of pressing importance. It is felt in many quarters that it is time the Church’s viewpoint was set forth. Accordingly, greater significance than usual is attached to the coming Dominion Conference and Men’s Congress of the Church of England Men’s Society. There, the main discussion will be on the industrial problem and the conference will concern itself with placing before the public the mind of Churchmen on how peace and goodwill in industry can best be attained. The conference, the 33rd annual such gathering’ of the society, is to be held at Wanganui from June 15 to 17, and the industrial question will be opened in the first address, on June 16, by the Ven. E. A. Osmers, of Christchurch, who will discuss “Industrial Unrest: Historic and Economic Causes.”

Archdeacon Osmers, who is Vicar of Sydenham and Archdeacon of Westland, took his M.A. in economics with first-class honours at Canterbury College. He holds the Diploma of ? Social Science, and is a Fellow of the Royal Economics Society. For many years he has been closely interested in social and economic problems. Another delegate who will be addressing the gathering will be Mr D. W. Stalker, secretary of the Invercargill Trades and Labour Council, who, on the afternoon of June 16, is to give an address entitled “Industrial Peace: Suggestions for Attainment.” Mr Stalker, who is a member of St. John’s branch of the C.E.M.S., Invercargill, is secretary of several unions and has been identified with the Labour movement in the South for a number of years. He has made it clear, however, that the views to be expressed by him will be personal to himself and not those of any organisation with which he is concerned.