CALL FOR GREATER EFFORT BY WORKERS

Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1947, Page 5

CALL FOR GREATER EFFORT BY WORKERS

Received Monday, 7.20 p.m. LONDON, June 16. britain 's food rations may well b& cut in half if tiie production drive iaiis, said the* Paymaster-General, Mr. H. A. Marquand, when addressing a Laboui rally at Cinderford, Gloucestershire. "Britain must get through the next 18 months somehow or we shail smash," he said. "Not only the miners hut also all workers must make greater eiforts than ever." A Government committee under the guidanee of the Colonial Office, is pre paring ambitious plans for food production in African and other colonies, m the same lines as the West African ^round nuts scheme. The plan covers tnt production of rice in Sierra Leone, tobae. co m Central Afric-a, coal in Nigeria bananas and other fruits in tlie Cameroons, linseed, sova beans and 'imber in a number of colonies, rice, coal and manilla liemp in Borneo, and nossibly wheat in some parts of Africa where conditions are considered suii able. One of the 'objects of the Colonial Office development plans is to produce food and materials which are at presem being boxight from the dollar areaMr. CTeech Jones is expected to plac ; he details of the schemes before thc Commons shortly.