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Towards PLANNED MANPOWER POLICY

How is the Common Market to put its manpower and training plans into practice — and what implications will this have for Britain? John Wellens answers these questions, and also brings into focus two rather remarkable features of Britain's national life: the Minister of Labour's industry by industry talks about apprenticeship and the timing of the formation of the NEDC. Can they be seen as moves …

The Newer Industrial Relationship Between Employer and Worker

IS the Industrial World a Smoldering Fire? This question has been smashed into my consciousness by the repeated hammer blows of the daily press, the weekly and monthly magazines, the screeching of the radical, the pleading of the social-minded, the threats of the workers and the pussyfooting of the employer. To those who can see with their eyes closed comes the recurring picture of bursting flames carried by the prejudices, the sympathies, the ideals, the hatreds and injustices from town to town, state to state, country to country. Here and there in the midst of this chaos stands a fireman in a feeble attempt to put out his individual succeeding partially, but always endangered from the flying embers of his neighbor's conflagration. Men of industry talk in whispers and there is a look of fear in their eyes as though they were sitting on the rim of an erupting volcano. From everywhere comes the cry of unrest, shouted from the housetops by the ranter, discussed academically by the learned professor, written of profusely by the theorist. Capital says the question of unrest should be solved. Labor says the conditions that make for unrest must be solved. And all of this discussion is being piled mountain high, a smoldering fire, now bursting out into flame, now being controlled and at all times a veritable volcano, ready to spit its devastating, destroying lava over the earth. Go where you will, no matter where your destination or what your object, the subject of discussion eventually turns to the present day problem of capital and labor. All types of men and women are giving serious thought to hundreds of minor differences that make up the major problems. Captains of industry are meeting through trades, by localities, through Boards and Chambers of Commerce and have thrown their best resources in an attempt at a solution. National and international organizations have called together the great men of