RELATIONS OF CAPITAL AND LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 5 September 1919, Page 6

RELATIONS OF CAPITAL AND LABOUR

"MUST STAND OR PALL TOGETHER" The relations of Capital and Labour were the subject of an eloquent speocli by the Hon, Sir John Sinclair in the Legislative Council yesterday. In the course of his address, Sir John Sinclair paid: "Sure|y, sir, this ig no time for our country to engage in strife. Surely Capital and Labour ought to recognise that thej must both stand or fall togetiier. There is a heavy, responsibility upon both. Capital must do everything in its tiower to provide the latest machinery and the most up-to-date appliances. That is one direction ;in which Capital must make its: contribution to that greater production which it. is demonstrable there must be. In what shape is the contribution of Labour to he made? Some of those who claim to speak for Labour, to have the car of Labour, are well versed in economic rm»stions. nro of high intelligence. They know well that there is n<v-'ei">rfc cut to industrial prosoerity—that whether this Government or that be in office'there can lie no substitute for industry and for thrift. . . . They know that where agree- : ment* are for a fixed terni, the party t.lin t breaks them does not nlay the game. (Tnless they wak out . . . heavy must be the responsibility unon them. In the Mother Country, Labour is beginning to Bpniik o«t. Some of the leaders there are Mlinir their followers nlaiV.y that if the conditions obtaining in England to-day f!o on, it will lend to disaster; and 6omo of them aw tellinnr their followers that tliero must be greater production."