MASTER GROCERS’ FEDERATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1922, Page 5

MASTER GROCERS’ FEDERATION.

TRADE MATTERS REVIEWED. By Telegraph.—press Association. Auckland, March 18. The report of the Grocers’ Industrial Union of Employers states that during the past few weeks the matter of a revival of a Dominion Federation of Grocers has been touched on by the Auckland master grocers. Although the executive of the Wellington union was at present acting as the controlling Dominion body, it raised .no objection to Auckland’s efforts to bring about direct representation if the trade considered it desirable. With declining prices, the trade is subjected to heavy losses, and these conditions will continue for, perhaps, another year. The report proceeds: The retail trade throughout the country will expedite the bringing about of new conditions by adopting drastic methods and cutting its losses. The greatest struggle in the world’s l economic history is now being undertaken. Almost unconsciously, in the great effort to break the vicious circles, the pre-war standard is at hand in almost all articles of common use, but a complete return cannot be achieved till Labor, in its turn, participates. A rearrangement of the cost of the workers’ output must be brought about before new conditions can be established.