ADVANCES TOWARD PEACE IN INDUSTRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 183, 24 October 1927, Page 1

ADVANCES TOWARD PEACE IN INDUSTRY

MUTUAL GOODWILL

GOOD PROGRESS MADE

British Wireless—Press Assn.—Copyright RUGBY, Saturday. The establishment of the committee for ensuring a continuance of peace in British industry is endorsed by leading employers and Labour officials. It is making encouraging progress. The peace movement received a stimulus at the recent conference of the Trades Union Congress when, in the words of a statement subsequently issued: — “The leaders of the congress, with the unqualified support of the union delegates, accepted the responsibility for a policy of cooperation in an endeavour to work out a practical solution of industrial troubles by methods of conciliation. The congress gave a definite repudiation of the militant policy with which the minority is identified. It signified its determination to exhaust all the possibilities of negotiation and conference in dealing with immediate difficulties affecting i the economic life of the country.” i Yesterday the employers’ national organisation for dealing with labour questions affecting the employers as I a whole issued a resolution endorsing unreservedly the desire for indus- | trial peace.

The Leader of the Labour Party, : Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in a speech at Colchester yesterday, expressed his i confidence in the development of the I peace movement. He said he belived most profoundly that the establishment of goodwill and useful cooperation by the two sides in industry ! could and would be effected. —A. and N.Z.