OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1928, Page 2

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

THE ArOND CONFERENCE. SUPPORT OF TRADES UNION COUNCIL. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 27. The report of the General Council of Trades Union Congress to be presented at Swansea next week, emphasises the importance of the issue of industrial co-operation, which is referred to in the negotiations with the group of ■employers led by Lord Alclchett (foiiuerlv Sir Alfred Aloud). The report regards this development of trade union activity as one which will enable unions to use their power to promote and guide the scientific reorganisation of industry as well as to obtain mateiial advantages from that reorganisation. In supporting the continuance of the negotiations the council, the report says, has taken the only course that it was possible to take, if the trade unions movement was to endure as a living, constructive force. That policy afforded the host hope of raising the status of security and the standard of living; of the workers whom the council represented. Verv grave responsibility would have been taken bv anyone who refused to consider the possibilities of such a course.

’l’lic importance, of the discussion which the council seeks authority to continue is dealt with in the- report, which recap Is the 'circumstances in which, for the first time in their his tory, representatives of organised labour were invited to meet a group of important industrialists to discuss (1) the finance and management of industry; (2) new developments in technology and organisation; (3) the organisation of industry ilsell ; (I) menus for assuring the status and security of workers and methods of achieving the highest possible standard of living for all.

SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN. RUGBY, August 29. The Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, is due to leave Liverpool on Thursday, in the liner Orcaina, oil a health voyage to the western const of North America, via (lie Panama Canal. lie will he absent from England for about ten weeks. Lady Chamberlain and their two young children will accompany him. The voyage from Balboa to Sail Francisco will he continued in the steamer President Adams. Alter a holiday in California, the party will proceed to Vancouver, and will return overland across Canada to Alontrcal.