PAYMENT BY RESULTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 711, 10 July 1929, Page 2

PAYMENT BY RESULTS

j BEST FOR INDUSTRY, SAYS ROTARIAN INDUSTRIAL PARLIAMENT Addressing about 2,500 delegates at the annual conference of the Rotary International Association of Great Britain, Mr. V. G. Crtttall, of the Crittall Manufacturing Company, Ltd., spoke on the necessity of paying attention to the conditions of the workers in Industry. “I do not want,” he said, “to introduce into England what Mr. Ford has done in America. Not more than ad per cent, of our men could stand the pace which Mr. Ford has set.” Mr. Crittall described juvenile labour as uneconomic, and nationally a confounded nuisance— (laughter) ; and said he regarded employers going i to work in plus fours on Saturdays | as a bad example. He favoured: A factory age between 16 and 60. A five-day week. Payment for holidays, and Payment by results. Mr. Crittall told the delegates that he never regretted having made bargains with trades unionists. Mr. Frank Hodges said that what occurred in that week between leaders of employers and employed was an historical event of the first magnitude. “I believe all our troubles usuallf start in the workshop,” he added- “ That is where Russia makes It* nucleus. She just subsidises the fe*' workmen's wages in the workshop, where cells are established out of which will emerge the germs of international revolution. “It Is a gratifying thought that** are going to enter Into a long period of industrial peace. Not that there will be no trouble; we are far too British to accept peace of that typ«(Laughter.) “But I hope, as the result of till* new tendency in industrial organisation, that the day is not far distant when industrial leaders —workers and employers—will have an industrial parliament.”