RELATIONS IMPROVING

Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 5

RELATIONS IMPROVING

EMPLOYER AND MER (British Official News.) Prev Association —By Wireless —Copyright. RUGBY, February 3. Sir Austen Harris, presiding at the annual meeting of Lloyd’s Bank, endorsed the opinions which have been expressed by the chairmen of the other big London banks regarding trade prospects. He said: “Features of a very gratifying nature stand out as beacons of encouragement and hope. One is a marked decrease in the number of unemployed, and the other is the comparative freedom during the past twelve months from serious labor disputes and strikes. I think it is becoming recognised that a greater feeling of mutual confidence is growing between the employers and the employed, to the. great advantage and benefit of both. _ A very encouraging spirit of conciliation and goodwill on the part of some of the prominent leaders of the trade unions has been shown by their speeches, and this discloses a desire on the part of responsible men to do everything possible to .avoid the disastrous recourse to a strike.”