LABOUR AND MARKETS
(Received June 16. 10.50 p.m.) LONDON. June 16
The New Zealand Minister of Finance, Mr. Nash, speaking at the National Press Club as chairman of the International Labour Office, said: “There will be new world wars, larger, longer, and worse than the present, unless the loader nations improve the conditions of the workers throughout the world.” Mr. Nash criticized Capitalist's going to China and other cheap labour markets to produce goods for sale in higher-price markets, and he said he was of the opinion that the practice could not last if we wanted to avoid wars. Citing the average expectation of lite in India as 27 years, and in New Zealand as 67, bo coirimentcd: “No lasting peace can be written while the ratio continues 27 to 67.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 223, 17 June 1944, Page 7
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