TRADE RELATIONSHIP

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 41, 12 November 1919, Page 7

TRADE RELATIONSHIP

B.EPORT OF RECENT CONFERENCE IS MELBOURNE.

Sydney, November 11. Tho reDovt of the conference of employers recently held in Melbourne to consider trade relationships recommends: The continuation of the present system of arbitration in settling wages and workine conditions. That Parliament should decide the number of hours to constitute a week's work. The adoption of the Whitlev scheme, in a modified form. The introduction of profit-sharing where practicable. The adoption of payment uy results. Unemployment insurance by general taxation. Assistance to eniulovees to buiid homes. A Commonwealth legal endowment for children under fourteen where the wages do not exceed the stipulated amount.—Press Assn. rThe Whitley report recommended the creation in each industry of district councils, representing the trades unions aim' the employers' and employees' associations, and the institution in particular work of works co-imittees, representing emolovers and employees, with the object of settling the principles and conditions of employment, and securing to the workers a share of the responsibility for the observance of the conditions of work, preventing and adjusting differences, and ensuring the greatest possible security of earnings and employment.]