Business Notes

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1915, Page 3

Business Notes

a— — A clearing sale of high daee cuWb and other dairy stock is to be held' on •behalf of (Mr. F. S. Searancke, next Monday week, ait Otaki. Details are set out by! advertisement to-day by Dalgety and Co., the auctioneers. iDalgety and Co. advertise, on page 3, details of a. sale to be held on behalf of Mr. N. Kdrkcaldie. One item is an ideal stud farm of 84 acres adjoining iLake- Horonvhearaa (tertne £1500 cash; Ibalance at 5 J per cent.) j another h a 12-aore section of ordhard l land, within fifteen minutes' walk of Levin post office; a-third is a 4-rtoiuedjp.ouse on t.f.ohe eecUbn-witibin a quoiter ot

STOP PiIJESS NEWS Chronicle Office ,3 u.m. London, Sept. 'J. The lU. Hon. D. Lloyd George was given au ovation at the Trade Union Congress. He saiid: "1 am grateful for the- opportunity of unfolding tho situation. You represent one of tho most powerful forces in the directing

of the country's life,

With you, vlc-

Tory is assured. Without you, our case is lost, i come here as the greatest employer of labour in the country, and lam also u trade unionist. I'ou pledged yourselves yesterday as representatives of organised labour to assist the Government in the successful prosecution of the war, and ± am sure you meant it. lam hero to take you, on behalf oi : the Government, . at your word. The war liaa resolved itself into a conflict between the mechanics oil tha respective nations, and x believo that the British workman is the bettor of the two "

"The Government ha& sixteen national arsenals and is constructing eleven more, ;uid to worJc these old and new ones 200.000 moro unskilled men and women are wanted or the country will not bo doing its best. it entirely is a labour problem and you can assist."

A voico interjected: "So can tho employ eifi."

The lU. Hon. D. Lloyd-George: "1 am not going to spare the employers (cheeitt). The machinery applicable to war material is not working night and day. Only 10 per cent is working night shifts, for the turning out of camion, rifles and war material. With plenty of labour the factories could be occupied continuously. 1 think that material could be supplied; it w> not for destroying, but for saving the lives of our young men."

'■Jl every skilled man were employed, still there never would be enough, labour for the tads in hand. The Government will be unable to equip an jinny unless the trade unions help iu these directions. They must suspend, lor the war period, all restrictions upon tiie best use of (skilled 'abour by the employment of unskilled men under skilled supervision for all work wherein highly skilled is not absolutely indispensable; they must suspend the practice ol preventing men from turnip out m much work as their skill and strength permitted; and, hnali.y, there must ue no stoppages in c.-iSL'iitiai trades wlieru prouts have :been restricted. We will bring practically the whole ol the workshops employed making munitions under tho Munitions Act. Those nvw under the Aut embrace DJ per cent of the laOour engaged, in those Industries."

"lie was yoing to u<sii them au unpleasant question: ilad the other iido of the bargain boon kept:'' It had been maintained honourably in many cases, but in far too many ib was not carried out. If tlie Government when trying to do its best for the gallant fellows iu the held was hampered at every turn by little technical objections it would Ije impossible to do the -work that the country demanded. I c-an give one instance of restricted output in an article that in vitally needed, and 1 ask: Will anyone defend that? (Cries of "So.") 1 have uo moro to say; that is exactly what 1 caino for." Several questions* were asked and answered, and the lit. Hon. 1). LloydGeorge -was thanked lor his attendance and his speech.