FACTORY COUNCILS.
A GERMAN DEPARTURE. fly Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. , Received August, 15, 1.15 a.m. London, August 11. The Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent states that the German Government has formulated proposals to give legal status to factory* councils on linea of the Socialist movement in England, thus giving industrial life a democratic basis. Thusf ar the proposals only recognise single factories, but the Governmen: foreshadows district, imperial and economic councils, including employers and employee*. The basic idea of the present echenie is to give the workers equal authority with the masters on ail questions affecting the goc'il"conditions of factory life, and the right to examine the economic ' questions. Where fewer than twenty are employed in a shop, stewards will be elected to the .councils, which will be elected annually by the workers above twenty years o? age. Agriculture and professious are included.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1919, Page 5
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