DEMOCRACY AND INDUSTRY
“To attempt to conduct a great industry on so-called' democratic principles would inevitably lead to disaster. Authority must rest, not with the inexperienced masses, hut with experienced lenders. One of the most iiu)>orcan f . of industrial prob'iips, indeed, tho most, important of all in the mind of the average workman, is what is to t.e his share of tire product. To the wage-eariier the wages, question comes first, mid since the wage-earners consulate llie- majority of parliamentary voters in ilie kingdom there is a constant tendency on t.hr part of politicians to interfere in wage problem*, tho result in many oases, being that an industry is siilijerled to legislative provisions which in. practice destroy its efficiency. The sound method is to allow each industry to form its own organisations for dealing with wage problems, and on this organisation rpiito obviously wage-earners as well as wage-payers must he represented. Snelt an organisation would at the I outset face tho 'fact that wages ran only be paid out of the price that the product of the industry brings.—Mr Harold Cox in the ‘‘Sunday Times.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1927, Page 4
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185DEMOCRACY AND INDUSTRY Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1927, Page 4
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