EMPLOYERS MUST UNITE

Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1947, Page 5

EMPLOYERS MUST UNITE

Received- Tuesday,, 7 p.zru SYDNEY, March 11. The primary cause of' Australia 's f ailure to cope with post war difficulties was the remedy put forward hy the trade union movement of reduced work. aud more wages,.said Mr. P. T. Barry, President of the Australian Metal Industries Association at the annual conference of the association. The- campaign of hypocrisy and propaganda continuously carried on by mxlitant ieaders and Communists in an attempt to convince the public that their policy of strikes and stoppages was justified on any bounds, caused growing, resentment, he said. There had- been a dazzling official picture since the war ended' hut it did not measure up to the depressing realities of the industrial situation. Honest and sincere cooperation from responsible trade unionism was essential but instead of this industry had met an aggressive union front of hostility and fresh demand. The only . way this could he met was for- employers to uuite and strengthen the defensive machinery of the organisa- : tion on a scale uqt previously thought necessary or possible.