THE TRADE UNION VIEW.
“The Trade Unions were formed to deal with a comparatively simple stt of facts,” Mr A. Creech Jones goes on to say in “The Common Room"they were the response of men to a new economic environment ; they were shaped on no particular principle and to no plan; they were adapted slowly and laboriously to meet new needs and to deal with new situations. To-day many of them, in structure and government, are anachronisms. The great world of industry, commerce and finance has moved on while they have continue a to attempt to grapple wi.h problems which have ’become infinitely more complicated with the years. They have no realistic view of the conditions in which •they are now operating. Their poLcy is shaped on the ideas' of a world thathas vanished. Some of the big Unions are adjusting their structure, government, methods and policy to the new economic environment but, as best, they lag behind the development nee ssary for the world they are operating in.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1931, Page 7
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169THE TRADE UNION VIEW. Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1931, Page 7
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