The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-17

some form of profit-sharing.
Meeting Social Obligations
Other PROPOSALS the Group put for
ward as means by which Industry
can help to discharge its social obliga-
| tiOns include:
Unemployment pay at subsistence
rates, paid to the workless as of right
and not Of charity;
Government and local authority
schemes of work to relieve unemploy-
ment in periods of trade setback, these
to embrace such public work as hous-
ing, new roads, and the like, but also
recognizing that the equipment of in
dustry with up-tO-date plant and ma
chinery Is as much in the national in
tereSt
Holidays with pay throughout in
dustry;
Reasonable hours Of work, taking
account that reduction of long work
ing hours results In increasing the in
dividual's ouput;
Family allowances for children up
to the school age, payable whether
the parents are employed or unem-
ployed, and administered through a
State scheme;
Raising of the school leaving age to
1G, and part-time compulsory educa-
ton up to the age of Is.
With these specific reforms no trade
unioniSt, as Alfred Wall remarked t.
me, would wish to quarrel. What is
perhaps the kernel of the matter is the
Groups proposal that the relations
between Industrial firms, between diff
ferent Industries, and between indus
try as a whole and the Government
should be more fully and comprehen
sively organized in some form of per
manent association.
This proposal, as the Group formu
late it, involves the creation of sec
tional associations, operating where
necessary through local or sub-asso
Citations, and charged with the duty o1
} cOOrdinating the activities and Secur
l ing the collaboration of all producer:
: in each section. Adequate representa-
: ton for small firms in these sectiOna
aSSOclallOIlS IS FeCoSlllItu aS necessary y
e Central Council OF Industry Plan
The creation of a Central Council o
Industry, competent to speak for in
l. whole of Industry on questions trans
cending the limits of any one trade il
: the pivot of this whole scheme o
) structural reorganization of industry
g The Group hopes to see all the existing
n national associations and federation
l. which represent industry brought int
l. consultation as early as possible OF
n the right means of bringing such
e Central body into existence.
/ One of the principal functions of thi
: Central Council of Industry, it is sue
e gested, would be to maintain cOntaC
( with the Trades Union Congress, a
well as with the sectional associations
Il But it is another important functiO
o that the Council shall be competent t
It recommend to the Government change
e which seem necessary in existing il
e duStrial and social legislation, and I
act generally as the medium for pu
J. ting proposal TO the Government o
. matters which from the standpoint q
" industry seem to require executive AZ
" ton. But as Alfred Wall pointed OF
=, there is no place in the scheme as ou
y, lined for either the T.U.C. or its atfil
ated unions to share responSibilit
with the employers, either in the SEE
< tiOnal associations or the Centrs
Council of Industry.
n The Trade Unions are apparent
g. to be consulted, but not admitted Il
Y partners, either in the making of il
dustrial policy or in the administr;
k, tion of industrial affairs. This is pc
II haps the point of departure for di
ii cussion of this program by the Trad
u Unions. This Group say that the
. have no desire to see any radio;
l.