FIVE YEARS' LABOUR TRUCE
■ .——♦- - SIR ' CHARLES WAKEFIELD'S . . .PROPOSAL. ' Sir Charles Wakefield, Lord of London in 1915-16, m a letter to Ihe Daily M0.i1," says;- , "I would suggest that it is the duty of the Government to sail a grand council of employers imd employed;-* sort or economic and .industrial Parliament of which there nra already in existence (but not functioning) several modelfr-to which it should reveal nil that is to bo known of tho. world-situation as regards food and otlior essential products. "It should sit continuously until it lias fixed'--upon the national consciousness tho absolute necessity . for immediate peace, Internal . and international, and for,maximum production of all necessities. It should then proceod to discus* wavs and means of inducing industrial stability for at least the next five years, during'which time every nerve.must be strained to rcnlaco some at least ot trie wastage of war. - „■■■.. "Wo have the needs of a tortured and famished world to satisfy. Hie humanity thunders in our ears A true© of God. or our children die! Shall uo fail to respond to that appeal.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 2
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178FIVE YEARS' LABOUR TRUCE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 2
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