EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 155, 26 March 1920, Page 6

EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS

COUNCIL SHOULD SET AN EXAMPLE. On .the recommendation ,of the Finance .flqmmittee. .the City Council last night decided to'approve the suggestion of >tha New .Zealand Welfare League that the Government should take steps to call, to-! Bother a national industrial conference of employers and workers.

Councillor P. Fraser suggested that now was the time for the council to set nil excellent example as an employer of labour. He thought the Finance Committee might take into consideration the .possibility of netting up some sort ;Sl •board ito.deal with matters which arose between the council and its employees. That evening the council would be di 3» cussing report,of the City Engineer dealine with .the working conditions -jjf the .council's employees, from which it would be found' that there was the greatest disagreement between the City Engineer and the men. It would uc foundry •the .council that at present there was no machinery for obtaining a proper understanding between the engineer and the ■men. It was all very well for the.council to n?ss resolutions, but something in the nature of an example should be Get. ' TJie ;Depu.tv-Mavor. (Councillor G. Frost) tiie matter would bo considered at the next .meeting of the Finance Committee.