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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1927, Page 2

pr is particularly interesting to note remarks the Auckland Slur that in the general revulsion of public, feeling produced at Home by the abortive general strike both ttorken and employers arc displaying an apparently sincere desire to obviate dangerous industrial difficulties in future. The movement inaugurated by tin- railway companies anil recommended bv Mich iii!llient ial public men as Sir .loscpb Stamp and Sir Alfred Aloud in favour of more systematic co-operation between employers and wage-earners is already extending itself widely and considering the amount ol active support llial it is now receiving it should speedily achieve some practical result. It takes two to make a f|iiarrel. and so long as both pai-ties to a dispute are amicably inclined the danger of any disastrous breach of the peace is reduced "hi a minimum. Just now the omens in the industrial sphere are extremely favourable on both sides For employers and workers are rivalling one mi other in their eagerness to find effective methods of averting industrial war. In the first place the recent Trades Union Congress declared emphatically in favour of “a policy of eo-operalion in an endeavour to work out a practical solution of industrial troubles” by peaceful and com iliatory means. On the other .side, the employers, through their national organisation, “have endorsed unreservedly the desire for peace expressed at the Trades Union Congress,” and also approved the view that this end can be attained by “the combined elforls el the employers and employed themselves” As a final proof of the general desire for a suspension of industrial warfare we may cite the recent pronouncement of Air Ramsay Alai Delia id expressing his faith, in co-operation and conciliation, and his conviction that goodwill can thus be established permanently between “tlie two sides in industry.” Tile situation thus created in the British industrial world is a peculiarly interesting one, and certain aspects of it deserve special comment. Ail important point has been gained by the action of the Trade Union Congress in registering “a definite repudiation of the militant policy with which the minority is identified.” The defeat of the Communists thus prepares the wav for “peace by negotiation.” But this peace must be made by the contending parties themselves, and this implies a distinct rejection of arbitration in such a form as is familiar to us here. Alorcover, “co-operation” is a vague and elastic- term, and in accepting its principle tlie trade unions do not bind themselves to adopt any specific plan for the regeneration of indusf rv.