A DEVASTATING REVOLUTION

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1930, Page 3

A DEVASTATING REVOLUTION

The Government is not forgetting that its main problem i=» ,u'iem:doyumrit, and the Minister o! Labour ,Misri Bondfield) ,i speaking. «'n 'Gemwall, touched on its difficulties (writes a London correspoudent-V She said it . r as interesting to read of tile effects of the spinning jenny and the steam vugirie one hundred years ago, bur, the present revolution in ind.istnn! processes was far more devastating in the livqs of the worldrg n.en and women. Because progress had been made in education and in social amenities poverty to-day struck a great, -error in the hearts of chose whose nines it invaded. “It is quite true,” said Miss Bondfield, “that our great basic industries must he rationalisedthat is, made efficient. The Socialists do not believe in inefficiency. I have Wen a Socialist foi over forty yea is, and to-day, in the light oi my la-rgei ipspoiisibiiilies, I am a more convinced -Socialist than ever. I can see. no way out of the present serious positron of trade and industry' in this •wintry except the Socialist way, which ifi the way of co-operation and service for tie; common good It is possible to-day for orders to i-e flashed from one end of the; wot. id •to • tlv other, tor competitors *» Jar-avi, >n England, and in Gwmnny to be. i' l the running for the same order given ov ; by. Russia or for any other tomlunation of countries to he in the rate to secure some contract, which "ill moan profits for their particular firm.”