WAR CONDITIONS
FEWER MEN; MORE WORK DOMINION PROSPECT “If the war continues for any length of time and New Zealand is given an opportunity to send a force overseas, it will become plain at once that the immediate problem under war conditions will be to do more work with fewer men —and to produce more to pay for (the enormously greater expenditure made necessary in a period of war,” said Mr. H. B. Duckworth, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, at the annual conference of the federation in Wellingtbn. "We have been anxiously awaiting a lead from the Government in this matter of the expansion of the supply of labour, specially in those industries which are already meeting heavy demands for war supplies and equipment,” he added. “If the Government will give us a lead, I am sure that, by co-operation and a spirit of give-and-take, employers and workers will be able to arrive at a reasonable basis for action. For our part, we must, be fair — we must be moderate.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20116, 9 December 1939, Page 4
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172WAR CONDITIONS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20116, 9 December 1939, Page 4
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