PULLING TOGETHER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1938, Page 4

PULLING TOGETHER

HOPES OF HARMONY IN INDUSTRY OBSERVATIONS BY LABOUR MINISTER. PLANS FOR THE EXPANSION OF PRODUCTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 30. Appreciation of the readiness of interested parties in Auckland to go thoroughly into the working conditions of different industries was expressed oy the Minister of Labour, Mr Webb, who said that as a result of recent discussions he was convinced that it would not be long before closer cooperation and better harmony would prevail in industry. "I .have had similar discussions in Wellington,” Mr Webb continued. "I will leave for the south on Sunday and will visit Dunedin, Invercargill and Christchurch, where I hope next week to contact similar organisations. I am convinced that the common sense of the people of this country will appreciate the need for better industrial organisation to ensure increased production and to enable our present standard of living to ■be maintained and improved.”

Mi- Webb said he would first confer with industrial organisations, manufacturers and producers to ascertain their point of view and also labour organisations, specially the New Zealand Federation of Labour. Following these discussions he hoped to arrange in each centre conjoint conferences of all parties concerned so that there might be evolved a more harmonious industrial machine.