EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 32, 27 June 1914, Page 3

EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE.

BETTER RELATIONS AIMED AT. j AN AUCKLAND SCHEME. j By Telegraph—Press Association. ; Auckland, Last Night I An important programme of activity ; is now under consideration by the Auckland Provincial Employers' Association. A scheme which has for its main object the protection of and provision for loyal workmen, and generally the creation of a raoi-j cordial relationship between employer and employees, will ( shortly come before the Council for approval. Briefly, the scheme aims at the creaion of* a superannuation scheme for i workers, anil '.-(.me ■system whereby provision may be made against the bardships of intermittent employment. The fust step towards bringing the proposals of the association to a bead lias been taken in the appointment, as assistantsecretary of -Mr S.H. Best, of Auckland. In the course, of an interview, Mr E.

I'vaig. president of the Association, outlined the main features • of the new scheme of activities. 'Tlie extraordinary growth .of industrial, commercial, and professional interests in the proviv.ee of lateyyears," said Mr Craig, "has brought increasingly under notice the total inadequacy of existing machinery to cope promptly with various probicmwhich crop vp from time to time, af feeting the interests of employers .-of labor, and the appointment of an (assistant secretary murks another step forward in the exhume of reorganisation determined upm .a year or so ago, and submitted for wihsidcration at tkw -uinm;a'l conference of the Employers' federation held in Wellington last October.

•'The history of t'hc recent disastrous strike, and the story of its suppression, afford an object-lesson upon the value of organisation, and we hope, when ouv present plans are .matured. to> lie enabled iu future to cope with a similar position promptly, anil so reduce to a ■miniiwum the loss and Kull'cring necessarily entailed upon non-combatants in will such industrial warfare. A feature o! our iplu-nie is the recognition of the fact that since every member will be entitled to thi whole-hearted support of the Association and its fundi* in a difficulty not of his own creation, so tllie meiiiihers, through their executive, will interest themselves in the working conditions of every industry wherein trouble threatens, and before espousing a quarrel will satisfy themselves that the conflict has not been needlcissly provoked. We are very hopeful that machinery to this end can be devised iu a form generally acceptable to members, w'hilst at the same time commanding the conI'ldcvre of workmen."