THE REAL INDUSTRIAL DIFFICULTY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1627, 21 October 1916, Page 4

THE REAL INDUSTRIAL DIFFICULTY.

In discussing the problem of ■work in Brilnin after the war, Land and Water shrewdly points ont that : “The real trouble arises from the lack of confidence between employer and employed. Where complete eonlidenee and goodwill exist most difficulties ean lie overeome. If the workpeople know that they will be allowed lo enjoy, nol merely temporarily but permanently, any increased wages that they ean earn by increased exertion, then they will do their best, and they and the linn and the whole country will prosper accordingly. That is the key to the whole situation. We cannot, in fact, solve the industrial problem except by moral forces, tn]ess tve can create a mutual understanding between employer and employed no material reforms will bo of permanent bencht. On (be one band the workman bas to realise that bis interest lies in doing the best work be ean so as to increase to the utmost the output of national wealth; on the other, the employer has to remember that his business is not only to increase material wealth hut also to study the health and contentment of the human beings Jte employs. Much that is now being done to improve industrial conditions will be of permanent value after the war. In scores of

munition factories arrangements liavc been made for the comfort and I lit- convenience of the workpeople that have added to the efficiency of their work and preserved their health. At the same time the (definite hai’gains made to prevent the culling of piece rates have stimulated men who previously idled away list If their days to put forth their full strength. It is on these lines that we have to -work after the ■war in order to secure, on the one hand, economy of production, on the other, the well-being of the producer.”