A NOTABLE DEPUTATION.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 November 1917, Page 4

A NOTABLE DEPUTATION.

EMBLOYEE3 AND WORKMEN.

MAKE IMBORTANT SHIBBINH. BEOBOSALS.

Received 5.35. LONDON, November 25 In receiving a representative deputation of employers and workmen in the. shipbuilding trades, who submitted a joint suggestions for securing the greatest possible output of new ships r Mr Lloyd George declared it was quite an unique deputation, and it might well mark a very important step forward in industrial relations. It was one of the most encouraging features in tbe prosecution of the war. It was a matter for gratification that employers and employees should desire the establishment of a body, representative of both, which would be an efficient instrument in settling difficulties and disputes, and he hoped this would be the beginning of very big things in the way of better and a more complete permanent understanding between employers and workmen as regards the vital interests of the country. We are fighting for lives and a terrible struggle on ■ land is before us; but if we secure the seas the enemy cannot escape us, we have got him in a deadly grip. Germany knows it is deadly and is trying to unloose it by attempting the vulnerable point, namely, our sea communications, but she will not succeed.