EMPLOYER ‘AND WORKER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3471, 27 April 1920, Page 5

EMPLOYER ‘AND WORKER.

FEELING OF HOSTILITY. A 1: a. luncheon given in his honour at Dunedin on Thursday, Sir Jame sAllen diagnosed as purely functional, the result of misapprehension, the apparent state of hostility existing between employers -and employees, which in many cases limits production. Always it had seemed strange to him, Sir James said, that in this young country of New Zealand they could not always rely upon all their working men to give the best day ’s work for a good day‘s pay. He had asked a business man‘, to inquire why the American working man did more in; a day ’s work than the New Zealander. The answer bad now come to hand that the working man of America did ndt feel that the employer was hostile to him, which apparently existed in the Motherland and in New Zealand. He would like to say that in his experience those of the New Zealand working men who had that feeling were mistaken. ’.l‘he bulk of the New Zealand employers were not hostile to their workers, and a large number of the latter were not hoStile to their employers. He was sure that among the others the "suspicion ‘of hostility would be dissolved.

The \American working man fought like a tiger for the best wages, bu’? once the matter was sett.led—he buckled to and did as much work as possible. If they could but achieve this‘ universarr_v New Zealand Would go ahead by leaps and bounds.