LABOUR TROUBLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10632, 10 May 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association, — By Electt ic t Telegraph — Copyright. J

AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION.

QUESTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

CONSIDERED BY CABINET

(Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock.)

LONDON, May 9. Mr Craw.sJmv-Wiillkims, Liberal member for Leicester, moved a resolution asking for an investigation', regarding the industrial unrest. Mr Robert Ceoil stated that ,the factory company systems had destroyed tihe human element in industry, and he advocated a system of co-partnership.

Mr Keir Hardie said that an enquiry would cause deky. The Labour Party objected to a special Gonrmissiom of Enquiry into these questions. Mr Hardie added: "We are the special Commission, and he moved an amendment in favour of a Light Work Bill, an eight-hours' day, a minimum living wage, and the nationalisation of industries.

The Right Hon. D. Lloyd-<3eorge said that agricultural labour was nuuch underpaid, imany earning only 15s peT week, The wationailisatiion of the railways, he said, was worth examining into as a business proposition. Unlimited competition was costing r the country millions sterling from the, fact that the.'workers were suspicious of the interference of the State. . /

Mr James Thomas, Labour member for Derby, interjected that out of thirty appeals the Board of Trade had only given one decision in favour of the men.

Mr Lloyd-George replied: "But as the Board of Trade represents the State, surely nationalisation is State control." He added that what Mr Robert Cecal invited, he consented to. He would put the case of co-partner-shio before the Cabinet.

The debate was then adjourned.