WELLINGTON NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1923, Page 4

WELLINGTON NOTES.

EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS. THEIR DIFFERENCES. rSi'ECiAP To The Guardian.] ! WELLINGTON, Nov. 30 .Mr T. Shader Weston, the president of Die .New Zealand Employers’ federation, is amain punning the way to the Indus trial niiiieiinim with unimpaired eloquence and unabated enthusiasm. ■■First,” he told the members of the Federation at their annual meeting, "employers will have to give lull attention to the adoption ot the most improved processes of manufacture and methods of production and distribution practicable in the circumstances of this country, and. secondly, labour will have to furnish steady, holiest and loyal eli'ort, free from strikes and siow.' Given the.-e two factors, progress can he made, and will lie made, small at tirst. but increasing as it goes on.” Tills, of course, is the sum of tic whole matter. Were there candour. understanding, forbearance, pa-il-me and goodwill on both sides the problem would be solved. Hut un--0,1 innately the industrial lie Id is not yet attuned to this heiiehciolil note. M.i Weston admits, however, that, Dm Workers have korne some share in the work oi recoil-.i‘ruetio-11. ".lytbonr oi; the v. hole.” In- my-, "has us-i-U-d the coliutrv'- progfe-- Towards iveoverinj: during the year by abstaining from • trikes and stoppages, mid by continuing to I'ni ni-h s'mady and rout inline, r Work." Tbi - i- a eon, i--.-i,iu ivli: -|> doe- credit io both side--. THE i HSt'O!! I>A NT NDI'E. Dot having paid this elnvalrou- ! r|iaitc to l.ahour, -Mr W'e-.toii as-uim-ce.-ily the old auitude of alli agom.-iii. "Even a the l.ahour leaner has the know Iciiy.e. pluek and honesty rcquired to a-k In-; followers not to 'imish their heads against a brick wail or to ie.lvi.se tbein that their employers' tails have hern already screwed to the danger point, that a flirt her linn must inevitably mean a kick back—what isi) often the result 7 The men turn their hacks upon their advisers. ami listen greedily to a new hot-headed extremist who has not yet learnt snffi- < ient to keep himself and his followers out of i rouble.” It. is the iteration and reiteration of assertions of this kind, a le-s militant member of the Labour Patty said to-day, that has done m,ire than anything else to keep niiicial Capital and official Labour at dagger- drawn through ail tin- veais. Roth sides have oifended grievoii-dy in tin- re--peet. A- individual- the decent worker ha- a warm r-ganl tor his employer, and the decent employer Jt warm regard lor his worker: but as group-, whether as ".inion.- or it, lid oration.-, they light with all the ran. four and futility ol angry politician-. CO-OPERATION. ’He ''Dominion” altei endorsing all tic hard tilings Air Wu-ioii has to :a v ahotit the worker-, ami emphasising them, -tg-dies the .-.oiler note, which in the eircum-tane"s. rather aggravateit- reproaelies. "There is a promising scope in this country.” it says. "for file delailetl devehuuiient in Industrie-, or at all event.-, in industrial establishment-. of a sound relationship between the parties in industry. A- sections ot employers and workers make good ii-.e of opportunities in this direction progress will be made toward'- a -flution ol the total problem involved in the adjust men t of industrial relations !.-ip -. The unduly common condition - Hi which worker- and employv - regard each other trout a ,-tand point of more or 1,-.-- pronounced h.o-- ; d”y edit toii-ly work eg ! ,-tly for all partie-. Di.-.-a t i-l'aet ion wit it Die-, e-mdil ions will deepen progre ,-ivel v a- '■> '- o'enion-t rated, if only in a proporlieu ol imhtslries. Lhai co-operation bclv|eu ill" par tie.- in industry ha.-ed on mutual loyalty „|lt>r> vastly kcUet n--s it 1 1 . No t.'b-.i-!-,. ant person oi'esi.e l ''" good ■e- !doir e. t or.) hi li ty o. all tin . no-, l i y -, -’d - hr .-,, , ■'•gam is that -r Gil,.- employers in hull, continue to regard the workers in bulk a- their natu.'-.il and iitvcitaMe enemies 'he two i'ltefesis will eonti'ntle to ela-h. LIGHT AHEAD.

I no 'll. veiling Ing supports to some cxiHit the view of moderate Labour and urges Loti, parties p, examine 1 heir differences from a Invader ami high-T siumlp but. “We have never believed." it prop.s Is. ■■that ! aboitr a , a n hole accented the idea of im \ iia.hl ■ conflict bet ween Capita.l ami Labour hut the . las. war hits I,eon preached, "ml Ike preaching has .had Some eii’ei r. L in s with flu| lovers, a- well a•; t • 11 1 Workers, to pivve now that the tneiev oi coiiflici is wrong ami that co-op w;tion is right. Pa tiem-e is ns sen- if ■'.access is (o attend a joint ..tfo-l. • L fleet ive rcnicdic as Mr Wes ton utils, art. so olicn slow-working : inn ■hey are sure. ]f [ h,. eiiergv u ■'•■"lcd lts.ro time to t lose in :u iit ■ s >■, ij ivnlhsd is divcrled p, indusl tml opei a! ion. it is certain L. \( a, h.andsoiiie return. But tir' co-op"! ■■,- t ion must he sincere and -ui •, t, and both panics must agree ;l;a:. as joint idfori justifies epii.tl sh; ring in i ~ the fruit of ihai eiforl.’ ’ ’I so* i■‘■'anils! sense w!iie!i sle thl ;i)ip -il 1 1 ,• workers as strongly am it vl, ml! to li e employe! s. Lolls nai'lics luiie (- IT ci-e.! considerable restraint, during die year tint i- jiM e!.i- ii.g and by t \, > ■,• little e- x leivion oi (he same spirit 11 < y might cite;* grind things in the tear at band.