Employer-Worker Relationship

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 52, 24 November 1937, Page 6

Employer-Worker Relationship

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MINISTER'S APPEAL "Play Ihe Game" One with the Other JVAGES AND PRODUCTION

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'■-f - " AUCKLAND, Last Night. Y A. plea to hoth the employers and IWorkers of Kew Zealand to "play the jgame ' ' oue with the other and thus Steaintain the industrial peace with re•oltant national prosperity was made Iby Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister of {Lalbour, to-dby. He was referring to ihe Arbitration. Court system and the bpportunity iij gave for . the peaceful Iwttlement of industrial disputes. His !visit -overseas and the opportunity it Had. given him of studying the systems tised in other countries had moTe than jever convinced him that the Kew Zealand system was the best in the world, i "The- more one sees of the strike itaethod of settling disputes," he said, f 'the more one is in love with the present system of arbitration we have in this eountry. "We want a high standard of wages for the people of this eountry fwho are doing useful work and we want freasonable conditions of employment, jbut if we are to maintain real prosperfcty we cannot do it without work. Real" iirealth is produced by work. "We wapt jto inculcate it into the minds of the Iworkers that it is economically imposfcible to divide more wealth than is produced; . ' "Kow that the new Court of ' Arbitration has been appointed, and it is likely that within a ' reasonable time jfcime the Courts will be able to catch' - trp on the arreaTs of work, I want to mahe a final appeal .to employers to play the game with their employees. On the other hand, I want to appeal to the workers to play the. game with their tmployers. The man who thinks he can maintain good * conditions by sitting - back and not doing his share to make those conditions possible is -making a big mistake. " Mr. Armstrong said he was hoping for very good - results from the new .3 Court. The Judge was a man of long •xperience in industrial law, particuIarly in compensation cases. Mr. W. E. - Anderson, who had been nominated by Ihe employers, was a man of wide ex£erience in Court procedure and indus-|' trial matters. generally, and Mr. A. W. Coskery, who would apparently repreaent the workers, was a man of long aervice in the Labour movement and •ne of the best-informed men in Kew iZealand on industrial law. Both Messrs Anderson and Croskery had figured prominently as advocates in the Arbitration Court and he was convinced the new Court would be a most efficient one,: ' ^ " ' '