BRITISH COMMUNISTS’ CALL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 3

BRITISH COMMUNISTS’ CALL

CONSCRIPTION FOR FACTORY WORK

MEASURES TO SOLVE PRODUCTION CRISIS (11 a.m.) LONDON, Stay 25. Mr. Arthur Horner, general secretary of the National Union of Mine "Workers, speaking at a press conference on behalf of the Communist Party, said the Government, in view of the economic crisis, should declare an emergency situation and take powers to mobilise the nation’s resources as was considered necessary after Dunkirk.

He added that persons physically capable of performing useful work, including housewives and students, should be issued with ration hooks only if they did such work.

All emigration should be prohibited* for three years. Employers of non-essential labour should be prevented from engaging new workers. The Government should tighten up

price controls, reduce the profit margin allowed, and should call on all workers in key industries to work one week-end in every four at overtime rates to help to solve the production crisis in the basic industries. Mr. Horner urged revision of the Anglo-American loan agreement and a conference of all Dominion and colonial leaders to discuss their joint part in the bargain to reduce tariffs or make loans for world reconstruction without political conditions as “envisaged in the Roosevelt era.”