NATIONALLY OWNED INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 101, 23 January 1920, Page 7

NATIONALLY OWNED INDUSTRY

•UNIFORM SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT FATAL TO SUCCESS NATIONAL JOINT BOARD SUGGESTED By Telfirrash-Prr.ss Assqciatton-CojyrUM London, January 19. Mr Philif) Snowden, formerly Socialist member for. Blackburn, speaking at Glasgow, said tlio experience of the war period showed that thero was all the difference in the world between organising tilings and organising and controlling men. jt was possible to organise inanimnto machines efficiently, but men were different, and it would be fatal to the success of any nationally-owned industry to try to impose a uniform system of management over the whoio country. He did not wish to see the mines and railways nationalised if it meant management by the present Government. An efficient and democratic system would be management by a national joint board, containing representatives of the community and the workers, and district boards, the latter- hearing the grievances of the men locally.—Aus. : N.Z. C'a.blc Assn. EVILS OF NATIONALISATION LABOUR AND CAPITAL PARTNERSHIP ADVOCATED. London, January 19. Lord Robert Cecil, delivering the Earl Grcv memorial lecture, reviewed the evils of nationalisation, 1 which, he 6aid, would tend to make the wages question a nolitical issue. -He advocated partnershin between Labour and Capital. A.us.N.Z Cable Assn.