INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

Southland Times, Issue 18858, 25 June 1920, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

1. 2. 3. ? A PLAIN TALK UN MATTERS CF INTEREST. PARTNERS IN INDUSTRY. (Contributed by the N.Z. Welfare League.) Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be otherwise, but, where ignorance spells short supplies, high prices, dear living, industrial unrest, general discontent —ignorance is a curse we can well dispense with. Employers and workers should adopt the new standard of partnership. Without capital, labour cannot operate. Without labour, capital is useless To secure partnership the employer must relinquish his false attitude of patronising superiority and the worker abandon his wrong disposition of foolish distrust. Partnership will come by meeting each other on the basis of human equality, each frankly consulting the other. The plans to be jointly applied should be jointly framed, anything else is not partnership. To arrive at an understanding the best plan is to forget what was said, thought, or done yesterday in favour of what will work best tomorrow. It is the common interest of employers and workers to get as much out of the industry as possible. Neither can get more out than is put in, and the best for both cannot be got without partnership.