MASTER AND MAN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2186, 26 June 1914, Page 4

MASTER AND MAN.

t«' SCHEME : FOKJMPROVED '?';!:: : RELATIONS. ; '7;(Bsr A^sn(.ia;foii.l • Auckland, June 25.;''JiAn important programme,of activity Jis now •uiiflpr. consideration .by tho Auckland Provincial Einpioycrs' Association. ;AV,scliemo wliich'lias f^or,its main.object !:th'o'protection of'arid provision'for loyal .-workmen and generally the creation of ;_a;-'moro cordial relationship between emplo}'crs and employees, will shortly coino '■Before tho council;for.approval. Briefly j.tlid scheme,aimed at.is the creation of ;/a ; -jsuperannuation scheme for, workers, "-.'■' arid somo system'whe'roby,provision may :!:bo, made against the'hardships of in- . ._. .'; 'Tha first stop towards bringing the : ,'proposals of- the association, to a head ■has been taken :ln the appointment as ,"'; assistant-secretary of Jlr. S. 11. Best, ;bf; ; Auckland. In tho course of an in•;torviow,_ Jirr-E. Craig, president, of tho .'association, outlined tho main features 'Of,: tho new'scheme of'activities. "The .'extraordinary growth - of industrial, rs'oinmoreial, , f and'-'-professional interests •in theprqyinco of lato years," said Mr. ■jCraig, "has brought -increasingly, under .Oiir notice the total inadequacy of tho I'pxisting machinery to copo promptly .with various problems' which r crop up from time to time affecting tho interests of employers of labour, and the appointment of an assistant-secretary marks an,'.other step forward in'tho scheme ...of reorganisation determined upon a year or so ago, and submitted for consideration, at the annual conference of tho Employers' Federation, held in Wellington last October. ■ ''!■''The history of the recent disastrous strike and tho story of its suppression," !h'o' continued, ;"alford an object lesson upon the value of organisation, and wo .'hope when our present plans are i'inaturcd to .be enabled, in future to copo "■■With- a similar position promptly,. and ■/so reduce,to a minimum jtho loss and ' (differing necessarily entailed upon noncombatants in all such industrial warffU'o._ \ feature of our .'chome'is a re!cbguitioii of tho fact that, sinco every member will be entitled to tho wholehearted support of the association and -its fund.-! in any.difficulty'not of his own creation, so members " through their executive will interest themselves in tho working conditions of every industry wherein trouble'threatens, iind' beforo espousing a quarrel will satisfy them- ' selves that the conflict has not been needlessly provoked. Wo aro very hopefid t!uit_ machinery to this end'can lio- , devised in a form generally acceptable to members, whilst at tho samo timo commanding tho confidence of tho workmen." ,