CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 June 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

(ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.J [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LABOUR ORGANISATION AND FOOD SUPPLY. London, June 17. It is understood that the Government with the assent of the Trade Unions, (resolved to ask -for greater powers than is conferred by the Defence of tho Realm Act to deal with labour. A new measure will probably be introduced next -week to increase the mobility of labor, and limit tho profits in coii trolled establishments whore all trade union restrictions will be abolished. Committees will be appointed lo inflict fines for slackness. The heads of the principal agricul tnral organisations urge the prepare tion of a national scheme to organise agriculture and secure increased production, by assuring the farmers that generous expenditure 011 farming will be repaid by remunerative prices. The scheme, which should largely be worked on a co-opM-ative basis, should cover four years, and fix the Government's responsibility for prices" and secure the necessary labour.