MASTER AND MAN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1661, 30 January 1913, Page 3

MASTER AND MAN.

HAPPY RELATIONS IN PLUMBING TRADE. • It is refreshing to come across an instance in, which masters and men in a Now Zealand industry, instead of/being at, one another's throats, are on friendly terms and inclined to co-operato for the benefit of the industry as a whole. This is the state of affairs in the plumbing trade,, so far at least as Wellington is concerned. "The saying that the interests of capital and labour are divergent docs not apply in our case," the secretary of tho Wellington Plumbers' Union (Mr. Dobson) remarked to a reporter yesterday. "So far as we are concerned," he added, "the bad old days have gone never to return."- Eecently representatives, of the union met delegates from their association with a view to arriving at a friendly understanding' in regard to the coming into force of the Plumbers' Registration Bill and other technical matters of interest to the trade. Tho conference was entirely satisfactory. A proposal is now afoot to establish a trade guild, which would be open equally to masters and men in the plumbing trade. The objects of tho guild would be to establish a club-room, in which trade periodicals would be kept, and to organise occasional .lectures' on technical subjects connected Svith \ the trade. : Another proposal which is likely to'bo vigorously championed by both masters and operative plumbers in Wellington is that of .'inducing the Technical School authorities, to. establish, classes in gas engineering, a subject for which no provision is;.made at present.