WAR AND INDUSTRIAL HUMANITY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2838, 1 August 1916, Page 5

WAR AND INDUSTRIAL HUMANITY

MB. LLOYD GEORGE'S PHILOSOPHY. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, July 30. Tuesday morning's' papers will publish a foreword by Mr. Lloyn George, contributed to a book, "Welfare Work," by Miss ,E. D. Proud,- formerly of Adelaide University, and recently in England in connection with tho Welfare Department of the Ministry of Munitions. Mr. Lloyd George describes the estab. lishmont of the Welfare Department, and says it is. • impossible to exaggerate its importance in safeguarding the hoalth and well-being of female workers. Lady supervisors are being appointed to all the national factories in which women are employed. Mr. Lloyd George 6tates that he hopes that all controlled establish-, ments will follow suit, and thus help to seouro a larger and speedier output. To preserve the workers' health and happiness relioves tho harassed omployers of needless strain. "It is a strango irony," Mr. Lloyd George writes, "that the making' of weapons of destruction should afford an occasion to humanise industry. It may well be that when tho tumult of war is a distant echo, and the making of munitions a nightmare of the past, this effort will soften, asperities, secure tho welfare of the workers, build a bridgo of sympathy and understanding between 'employoi' i and employed, and leave behind results of permanent and enduring value to tho I workers of tho nation and mankind at I largo."