A WARNING NOTE
SPEECH BY MR. J. H.THOMAS REAL DIFFICULTY OF THE MOMENT !y Telegraph-Press Associalion-Copyrigh (Ere..March 3, lU.p.m.) London, March 3. Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., the railway men's representative, speakin'g_at Wat ford, said that Britain's industrial lift for four years had been carried en with borrowed capital. Wiis lVaiy wondei that large masses of the people believed that the process could continue? Until this fallacy was removed .'we could never view things in their., true "People will have to do what, tho nation, must do—that is, retrench. The war has rightly created <i demand on the part of tho workers for a higher standard of living. The ireal difficulty of the.moment ig the fixing of a, permanent standard owing to tho abnormal cost of living. It is therefore necessary to resort to temporary expedient to deal with an abnormal situation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 7
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144A WARNING NOTE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 7
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