UNREST AND DISCONTENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1920, Page 5

UNREST AND DISCONTENT.

LABOR OUTLOOK REVIEWED. WORKERS PRODUCING LESS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, March Hi. At the Chamber of Commerce Conference the president said that there was a crying need for increased production, but there was a growing inclination on the part of tile worker to produce less and work shorter hours. There was a general unrest and discontent everywhere and every legislative device to check the evil was doomed to failure. There ?eemcd to be a deliberate plan on the part of a comparatively few extremists to wreck ' the present social industrial system by revolutionary methods- Towards these there should be no compromise, but towards legitimate demands they should manifest patience, sympathy and justice. Mr. Hy. Braddon moved a motion that, in view of the failure of- compulsory arbitration, the conference should evolve other methods to abolish industrial unrest. He suggested the creation of the simplest type of impartial tribunal annually to fix the basic wage for the Commonwealth, the abolition of the existing arbitration machinery and the creation of employers' ami employees' committees on the lines of the Whitley scheme. —Aits -N.Z. Cahle Assn.