INDUSTRY’S REWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 33, 2 May 1927, Page 2

INDUSTRY’S REWARD

AMERICAN PROSPERITY By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright NEW YORK, Saturday. Frankness was the note of the speeches at a banquet which was given to the members of the Australian Industrial Mission by the Hartford Club yesterday evening. There was a large gathering of merchants, employers and newspaper editors. Mr. Charles Cook, the president of the Manufacturers’ Association, who began work at the bench, said that to make business prosper we must obtain from the manager downwards the most work in the shortest time, with the best quality possible and with the least fatigue, and at the lowest cost, combined with the greatest safety and in the right spirit. In all business dealings three factors were essential: Justice to the employees, employers and the public. On such a platform Capital and Labour would grow apace in each other’s confidence and esteem. Air. Campbell, in responding, said that before he left Australia he had advocated piecework. After visiting America he would say in a louder voice, piecework must come. Whether it was possible with the confeent and the help of the; trades unions, he was not prepared to say, but he hoped the unions would assist. Air. Arthur Shipman, a Hartford lawyer, said the open shop policy of America was growing, and the nation was becoming more and more individualistic. Everything was not rosy in America, and to keep their bread and butter they must work. When the President, Air. Calvin Coolidge, was asked the reason for the prosperity of America, he said it was due to work, and Americans must stick to that.—A. and N.Z.