The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
Labor News From Brituin

financial assistance from the Govern
ment may be required for such pur-
| poses?
What new products has each indus
| try developed as Il result of new in
ventions and archaeological processes.
and what new varieties of existing
products or completely new commodi-
ties will they be able to place upon the
market?
Dr. Dalton emphasized his view that
qustiOns of this nature need to be
answered industry by industry rather
than generally. Until we get a picture
Of the postwar problems confronting
the separate industries, he said, we
shall not be able to estimate the total
volume of employment on which we
may reasonably count after the war !;
nor can we appreciate the nature of
the obstacles which must be overcome
in order to achieve full employment
until we know what the potentialitieS
as we'll as the practical difficulties Of
each industry are, having regard to
wartime changes affecting them
In his approach to the trade associa-
tions, industry by industry, the Minis
ter has urged upon them the import
ance of considering these questions in
consultation with the Trade Unions
concerned. He has suggested that some
of these questions can best be dis
cusSed through the joint machinery
existing in each Industry. And he has
made it clear to all the group indus
tries that before any important deci-
arrangements will be made for CON
sultation with the Trade Unions CON
cefned
Important June Labor Conference
These arrangements, therefore, en-
sure that consideration of problems of
postwar planning will be carried on in
il practical and workmanlike way in
duStry by industry. These consultations
will supplement and amplify the exam
ination of the general plan of postwar
reconstruction which Britains Minis
ter without Portfolio, Sir William
Jowirt, is making with the help of the
new Reconstruction Joint Advisory
Council he has set up. This Council is
composed of twelve members, six rep
resentins the two big employers bodies
the British Employers Confedera
ton and the Federation of British In.
dustrieS - and six representatives OF
the TUG. General Council. There is
another of Sir William JOwitt's Com
mitteeS, known as the Panel of Do
mestic Reconstruction, ON which the
TUG. General Council is represented
1t can be said, therefore, that the
Trade Unions are effectively associated
with the discussion of postwar plan
ming from the Government angle.
; The Trade Union and Labor Move
ment is also, of course, actively en-
gagged in an intensive examination ot
postwar reconstruction from its OWL
standpoint. Important discussions are
scheduled for the Annual Conference
of the Labor Party which will assem-
BILE in London on June IA. Reports on Il
variety of questions including the pro
pOsal to set up Il State Medical Serv
ice and develop the public health serv
. ices of the nation, on housing and towr
planning, on reorganization of loca
government, on the question of the re
tention by the Government after the
war Of properties it has acquired, in
Guiding land and industrial plant, vii
be circulated to the Party'S affiliated
; societies prior to the conference, anC
Il series of special resolutions basel
; upon these reports will appear on the
Agenda.
Working Women On Housing
The Annual Conference of Labor
: Women, too, will provide an occasion
for the consideration of many aspects
Of social policy after the war. The
WOmen'S Conference will meet in May
, One. of the most interesting report,
which will be in the hands of delegates
to this Conference deals with the in
quiry into every aspect of the hOus
ing problem which the Standing Joint
Committee of Working Women's Or
| ganiZationS has been engaged upon.
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