The Report of the Sub-Committee of the Reconstruction Com- mittee
on the relations between employers and employed was published last week. Tho Report is based on the conviction that the reconstruction of industry involves the largest possible measure of co-operation between employers and employed. To secure this end the Committee recommend the formation of Joint Standing Industrial Councils in the several industries where they do not already exist, composed of representatives of employers and employed, and the supplementing of the Central bodies by District Councils and Works Committees. "The National Industrial Council should not be regarded as complete in itself : what is needed is a triple organization—in the workshops, the districts, and nationally." With regard to the Government guarantees as to the restoration of Trade Union rules and customs suspended during the war, the Committee hold that while this does out mean that all the lessons learned during the war should b. ignored, it does moan that the definite co-operation and aciainseenee of both employers and employed must be a comfit of any setting aside of those guarantees or undertakings.
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