The Government's industrial mission, which went to America some time ago to inquire into industrial] Jconditions and especially the relations between employers and employed, returned here to-day.
'The delegation was very much' impressed with the many new experiments in Canada and the United States to effect healthier and more harmonious relationships between. Jcapital and labour with or without trade unions. Ca-operation is a noticeable feature, the delegation declares, and there is a large and constantly. increasing amount of stocks and shares held by workpeople in the companies with which they are employed.
Another development noted by the mission is group insurance under which workers are individually insured, both sides contributing pre-miurus. Many of the larger plants. have full-time qualified doctors and nurses to attend to the work-people, gratis, and there are surgeries at. Jsome works. These are provided on 1 business and not on a sentimental]
Jground, the delegation says.
Wages are level and much higher than in England and much is done: to relieve the workman of heavy manual tol Normal hours vary from 40 to 60) hours a week. There have been few strikes lately, but these are re-Jearded as local and have not affect-fed industry as a whole.
The delegation was headed by Sir William Mackenzie and included Messrs, Mitchell, Leggett and Emer ison of the Ministry of Labour, Mr. Bevin of the Transport Workers Union and the well-known industry lists, Messrs. Michael Dewar and Randolph Smith—Reuter.
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