NO SHORT CUTS TO PARADISE.
Mr J. IT. Thomas, M.P., speaking at Derby recently, said; “I cannot quite understand the anti-waste campaign,but I differentiate between the kind of expenditure .which some of these anti-waste people believe in and the kind of saving which Labour is anxious to bring about. You are entitled to say if there is no money we tolerate the position, but how many of you know that this year the Government built an experimental airship costing £150,000, or nearly as much as their total housing programme for the year. Imagine the hypoeraev of the whole thing. Then, in their agricultural policy, which they have now reversed, they provided nineteen millions as bonus to the farmer to encourage him to grow food for the people, a very wise and necessary provision; but, imagine our -uprise, when we realised that out of that nineteen millions they arc paying a bonus at the present time of eleven millions and a-half for growing oats for horses. Two hundred thousand pounds for housing the people; eleven and a-half millions for oats for horses." Speaking against strikes. Mr Thomas urged the workers them there was a short cut to Paradise by downing tools.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2327, 10 September 1921, Page 4
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200NO SHORT CUTS TO PARADISE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2327, 10 September 1921, Page 4
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