PEACE WITH FAMINE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 6

PEACE WITH FAMINE

MR SIDNEY WEBB ON THE WORLD AFTER THE WAR. '

Speaking ot Hampstead Garden Suburb "rpcenrlv on "Industrial Reconstruction, Mr. Sidney Webb said there would be plenty of work for everybody aftfr the wir There must be no cancellation ot war bonuses, for those were not given for the duration of hostilities, but to meet increased prices arising from them If they wore tampered with there would must be prevented, not relieved, just as one would prevent cholera There wns no excuse for either in n continuous or epidemic form, and the Government must step in. There would lw an enormous amount of Government work everywhere. It would bo necessary to oiisure" an neereirate lovel of waees and demand for Inbonr. There would be an insurrection if wages were reduced by employers. There wns going to be a world shortage in raw material, and the country would have to wake up and produce. Twenty million men had boen taken from production to entire in destruction, find no amount of international borrowing or pawning would replace the loss. Famine would probably take plncp. and all the nations must asrrcp Hint there must bo an oquitablo distribution of Ihoir exnortnble surpluses to those other countries needing'thorn. There must be no priority, either in dnsi or country. Tt must be a pas? of nolx-dy l.avin* rnhlill everybody hud broad. Tt 'would bo vain to s'ponk'of larilTs, preferential Ivontniont of the oolonios. or ovon of boycotts of the Centrnl Powers-all Hipsp Ihings would shrivel up. Intomatioiinl Government co-operntion was absolutely essential.