LABOR PROBLEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1919, Page 4

LABOR PROBLEMS.

TATEMENT BY ACTING-PREMIER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Some time ago the New Zealand fed* eration of Labor issued a programme of proposals for industrial reform on the lines of granting labor a share in the management of industries. Sir James Allen, when questioned to-day, said he had been watching the matter very closely since he made his recent speech in Dunedin, and he had observed references by some of the bodies of employers to the conference's proposal. The Government would do all it could to assist in bringing about an understanding between the two parties, but the question for consideration was whether any good would come of a conference at the present time. Though the signs were inopeful, the parties were still at arm's length and were mutually suspicious. That I suspicion must be removed and a better atmosphere created before they could hope to do any good at a conference. The Blow process of education must be allowed to work. He believed it desirable that employees should bo some part in the management of industry, so that they might appreciate the problems and the difficulties of the em--1 plovers, but tbat could not be brought aSbout hastily. Any attempt to hasten the process by a conference before the parties were ready to come naturally together would lessen the possibilities of good results, and might undo the good | that already bad been done.