TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10346, 20 April 1911, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

LABOR AND CAPITAL,

THEI STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY WiHAjT IS 771*1 SOLUTION! (Per United I'resa Association.) AUCKLAND, Alpril 20. Thu rela't:o.n bbtweieii capital and labour was ihei eihief after-dinncn' topic with the nuemlbbra of the Auckland Provincial Industrial Association at the annual dinnei- 1 last night.

The President (Mir Bl Buttle} said tliait capital and! hubour were at grips and stirugg'ling; for supremacy. What ■Was wanted was a. solution out of the difficulty. Hie, did not think that was to be taoulght aibonJb by legislation, but only iby conning to 1 an undorstaiKilinjj with ea.ah other' on a 1 man to man basis.

The Hion. Mr Carroll Replying 1 to t-ha toast "Parliaiaent" spoka of the necessity of labour and capital Working in oonjulnot.io<n towards the advancement of the common welfare- of the! country. Th,e preisleoiti '6tt.»te of affairs cio-uld not go on for a head could not work without the rest of thd anatomy. The Government had tried to stolvo the labour _ protilcm Mv legislation, buit tJie employers were om ond side and tlie emip'loyees om tlie other. Neither ware satiafied. He: believed they would yet findl imibued in all sections of the public the true fysiista of fair play. When they arrived at thait undiei'atandinp: the 1 problem was solved 1.