HOW TO CARRY WAR BURDENS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 210, 30 May 1919, Page 6

HOW TO CARRY WAR BURDENS

I ♦ ' | :r v INCREASE PRODUCTION | : | A SERIOUS WARNING I At. the annual meeting of the | ton, Chamber of Commerce yesterday the i ' president (Mr. J. 14. Harkiiess) said he | wished to stress again the vital necessity • Screwed production if the nation wa, ' • to be saved from serious financial diffl- ! Jntttas. Tlm matter had been referred i by he Crown cnoken ofr.the subect, but he thought ! Tsteps of a practical nature had been ! filiated to' give effect to the proposal. I' ft Waoout it was insufficient to WingI about the desired result. ' ' TJ left to the individual it becomes ! nriboVk duty or responsibility, said 1 Mr Wurfeness "It needs to bo a nai Honal movem nt, founded on a national SSt that every producer every worker must be induced to realise that Station's welfare depends on each and all doing in-their special calling the best : :he or she can do. Naturally some may- ' SL Why is more production required I SitSt be left to private enterprise tC reason is plain. In 1914 our National ' reached .£166,164,385, nn increase of 466,1 EaMO Tliis sum involves the.providing i former sum is reproductive. The. in. ; s^ptffiensv^dt I KSA advantages may be .gam- :' ed. Practically it is lost. I "If then, a certain production _ in i ' 1914 enabled us to meet the Dominion 9 flSmSfl obligations, what are we doing out output remains about normal ' "nd'values are reduced considerably n I the nSr future, to pay nearly double, the • »™««nfP Thore is a crisis approaching i ■ R history o! the Dominion, lave,we the courage and determination to face i ?Ii 8 'Increase the ood > * tTwohM pay the Dominion, to band ' over to competent men the unoccupied VZs thTwMto lands of this countr.y for a term of years'at a nominal rent, ! 4 r evei witJiont'rent, provided n a given i ■ time they added to the wealth of the i natfon It would pay handsomely It ! EaVJbe urged that the settlemen of rei ffid soldiers on the-laud will assist Suction materially. No great returns I From hat source can be forthcoming for 1 tome time. What is needed most ot all production not only from ! /tLsol bntfroin all the industries and !■ mines. It is those who are now, settle ! "the business from whom the necessari ; ' hllp"rt*t come- Not only must the soil ! 'increase its productivity at a greater • iaMo than .heretofore, so must the mami- : factoring industries add ..their. quota, and i. lait but.not. least the coal mines, of the I Dominion must put out ample supplies i for local requirements and sufficient to meet the demands of ocean and. intercolonial steamers. Eestricted output, is injurious to all concerned. It alarms • Capital and reacts on Labour by vediw- ' in» wages.' Increased productivity '■ brought about by all sections is the only potent factor, to coin a phrase which -will 'stabilise' the finances of tho Dominion."