MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

SEA SUPREMACY VITAL. EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS CO-OPERATING. London, Nov. 25. Receiving a representative deputation of employers and workmen in the shipbuilding trades, who submitted joint suggestions for securing the greatest possible output of new ships, Mr. Lloyd George declared that it was quite a unique deputation, which might well mark a very important step forward in industrial relations. It was one of the most encouraging features in the prosecution of t'-e war, and a matter of gratification, that employers and employees should desifo 'lie establishment of a body representative of both, which would, be an efficient instrument in settling difficulties and disputes. He hoped this would be the beginning of very big things 'in the way of a better and more complete and permanent undersfymding between employers and workmen. "As regards the vital interests of the country, we are fighting for our lives. 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, and Germany knows it is deadly and is trying to unloose it by attempting our vulnerable point, namely, our sea communications. But she will not succeed." A SHIPBUILDING COUNCIL. London, Nov. 25. The Pres9 Bureau states that the Admiralty announces the formation of a Shipbuilding Council, under the chairmanship of the Admiralty Controller. It includes representatives of the shfpW.lding and engineering trade* and officers lof the Admiralty. It will consider the [ problems of naval and commercial shipbuilding and repair. j POST WAR INDUSTRIES. London, Nov. 25. The Government lias appointed a committee of bankers, commercial men, and manufacturers to report on the financial arrangements necessary after the war to enable war factories to produce peace 'manufactures and to meet the great demands for raw material owing to the depletion of stocks.