MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

FUTURE OF LABOR, f DECISIVE PERIOD APPROACHING/! '. BETTER CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL*. By Telegraph.—Press Assn Copyright, Received Oct. 15, 7.55 p.m. London, Oct. 14. The Government has resumed negotiations with the railwaymen in accord ance with the terms of the strike settlement. Mr. Cramp is of opinion that the negotiations will be carried on with the .utmost harmony. Mr J. R. Cljmes considers that the next three months will be a decisive period in industrial reconstruction. The workers are clearly pressing stabilising the standard of national life and are determined that wages shall not recede to the pre-war level. Mr. Clynes believes that the Government and other em. ployers can be induced to grant a new standard. He urges a Joint Council should he developed cut of the existing bodies as the best medium of mediation and conciliation. The issue must shortly lie faced whether the problems are to be smoothly solved or whether the country is to be plagued with an endless series of industrial crises, i Mr. Clynes is hopeful that the workers can be persuaded to give thi maximum of efficiency necessary if thej are granted improved conditions.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assn.

INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL SCHEME. PROJECT MAY BE DROPPED. Received Oct. 15, 10.20 p.m. London, Oet. 15. The Daily Express states that the National Industrial Council Scheme is in danger owing to Labor members presenting the Government with an ultimatum demanding the reconsideration of its decision to exclude agricultural workers from the Forty-Eight Hours Bill. The decision was made without a consultation <rf either the masters or the men or the industrial council. Indeed, the Employers' Council agreed to the demand for a reversal of the decision. As the Government is adamant Labor members have called a meeting for tomorrow to decide' whether the whole scheme should be dropped. Moderate Labor members are: generally anxious regarding the outlook, especially as it was hoped one result of ; the railway strike had been to make unions anxious to test the Industrial Council scheme. If it collapses it will mean that the chances of a great forward industrial movement on tional lines and the direct, collaboration of employers will be endangered.—Aus.- ' N.Z. Cable Assn. \ CONGESTION IN THE PORTS. , London, Oct. 14. As the outcome of the strike, the Ministry of Transport has completed a scheme to utilise motor lorries to relieve the congestion in the docks at London, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, and Hull. Committees have been created at these points to carry out a scheme by . which employers and workmen will have '. representation. i AUSTRALIAN MEAT AT HOME. i London, Oct. 14. It is understood that Dr. Gilruth, * lately Administrator of the Northern ' Territory of Australia, has made an exhaustive investigation of the qquestion B of nodules in beef, and has evolved a plan by which the difficulties may be overcome, resulting in great benefit to the Australian meat trade. l ' Dr. Gilruth will submit a full report on '■ the subject to the Government on his return to Australia. It is believed that the British Board of Trade may possibly be induced to undertake its own inspection of meat in Australia prior to shipment. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.