GETTING TOGETHER

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1929, Page 8

GETTING TOGETHER

EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE. 00-OPERATION NEEDED. “It is necessary to realise that, as we are all in the grip of evolutionary forces, we cannot remain the slaves of class bias. It may still be necessary for each side to maintain its own standpoint and organisations, but this should be done without bitterness, realising the obvious constraining power of circumstances.”,. The above plea for co-operation in dealing with industrial problems was made by Mr Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland Employers’ Association at the annual meeting. He said the widespread industrial troubles affecting the world to-day, were to a large extent the outcome of the introduction of mechanical and scientific methods of production. The first effects of the change in England, the pioneer of the modern system, caused some radical changes in the Old Country, especially affecting agricultural production Very considerably. It also has a disastrous effect on the workers. Experience of the attendant evils showed the necessity for bodies of workers to combine in unionism to' enable them to cooperate and bargain with the employers for their mutual protection. Other nations one by one, had since undergone the same experience, until to-day it was apparent that the system of mass production, with its benefits and evils, would become general throughout the world.

COMMON INTEREvSTS

The simple fact was that physical science has been progressing by such leaps and bounds that industrial reorganisation had been unable to keep pace, said Mr Spencer. One had only to look at the rapid changes taking place in transport alone; motor-cars and flying machines were both rapidly affecting railway returns from passengers and goods. By striving for greater efficiency, by opposing unduly short hours and excessive holidays, employers were merely aiming at economy of production and greater efficiency, and up to this point both employers and labour had a common interest and should have a common policy, It was not, unfortunately, always realised by the worker that this economy of production was essential to the, carrying on of industry, and that if it could not be secured, the employer could not carry on. His disks and responsibilities were not understood by the porkers, and only when unemployment,became general and increased would the realities of the position Ire brought home. While the conciliation councils and the Arbitration Court acted as a check on unreasonable demands from both sides it was at present unfortunately only too true, as admitted at the recent Industrial Conference, that organised industry was now run on the lines of a tug-of-war. The two sides rarely met except to make demands of one another, or to compromise conflicting claims, and negotiations were inevitably carried on as between two hostile bodies.

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