CAPITAL AND LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1922, Page 5

CAPITAL AND LABOR.

REMOVING CAUSE OF FRICTION. PLEA FOR UNDERSTANDING By Telegraph—■ Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A proposal for the creation of better feeling and better understanding between capital and labor was introduced by the Auckland delegates at the sitting of the Industrial Conference to-day, and gave rise to a discussion. Mr. W. Dearshby (Auckland) said that the problems and difficulties that nowadays presented themselves were principally the result of misunderstandings in the past and the application of wrong principles. He was convinced the preseat means of dealing with industrial disputes sadly needed overhauling. He moved:— “That this conference recommends the Industrial Associations of the Dominion to endeavor to arrange in their respective centres a conference with the manufac' turing section of labor unions, with a view to creating a better understanding of our mutual interests in the development of our secondary industriea.” Mr. Mitchell (Wellington) said no good purpose could be achieved by such conferences. He questioned whether the industrial corporation was the right body to take the matter up, and he said it would be distinctly futile to call such a conference as was proposed. It would be fraught with danger to the manufacturers and unions represented. After discussion the motion was amend* ed to stipulate conferences with employers engaged in the manufacturing trades, and in that form it was carried.