Labor Discipline

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 27 May 1914, Page 5

Labor Discipline

THE AUSTRALIAN HL'IAVAIiK. OJ UNIONISM. ORGANISING Tllli INDUSTRIAL FORCES. Uy Cable-Press Association- Oopyrigli Received 20, midnight. S.wliicy. May 26. The Federation of Unions lias brei definitely formed, with a provisional council, and with Mr. Hughes as pre sidont. Tt is proposed to present an united front to capitalists by menus ot tlie power of concerted and well-eoiisidor-cd action. Numbers of unionists are dubious of the bona tides of the moving spirits in the Federation.

MORE MODERN METHODS NEEDED. Sydney, Kay 26. Mr. Hughes, in opening the Labor Federation Conference, urged the need for the adoption of modern industrial methods. In these days of gigantic aggregations of capital it was not only futile but suicidal to adopt the loose formation which served unionism well enough in days past. Modern industrial warfare was as much a matter of scientific application as warfare between nations. They must be disciplined, under rapid control, and their efforts directed to one end. Federation was an organisation which sought to supplement the existing organisations and by tlio establishment of efficient | machinery to gatZhcr together tho industrial forces of the Commonwealth. Mr. Hughes added that by some the constitution of the Federation would doubtless be regarded as revolutionary, but in effect it was not, for events had recently moved with such rapidity that tho step was natural and inevitable.