LINKING-UP INDUSTRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1076, 13 September 1930, Page 7

LINKING-UP INDUSTRY

ITS WIDESPREAD BENEFITS ffl E CURE FOR DEPRESSION c vtr y order for goods made by Zealand workers casts a l one into the stagnant pool of depression, and creates an — r .widening circle of business prosperity. It keeps our factories skilled artisans busy, and * an » a freer circulation of money the country at a time when Lings are dull. It is not only ‘ ac tusl manufacturer who bene- ' . the wave of prosperity which follows spreads equally in all directions. There are iu New Zealand over half I mi lli on bread-winners, with three : barters ol' a million dependants, when the bread-winners suffer from compulsory i,ilem ; sa , or abort age of ! those dependants must also feel pinch. 1-ess than one-half or hose bread-winners are direct produe- ; “ the others being engaged in transport- commerce, public services, professional, domestic, and other oc ; cupatious. THE PRODUCERS' BURDEN It is the function of those bread winners engaged in productive work I create the wealth to provide a living for themselves and the others, rfce more those engaged in farming Ld manufacturing can produce, tl> better off are those not directly encaged in the production of goods. Our producers of wealth ar- about equally divided between farming and manufacturing industries, and upon them falls the burden of keeping the country solvent, and prosperous. From the most selfish of motives —the elementary law of self-pre-servation —we should do all in outpower to assist our wealth producers to create as much as possible, doing as much work as we can for ourselves, and sending as j little as possible abroad to be done by outside workers while our own are idle and needy. INTERLINKING OF INDUSTRIES The least profitable form of labour is the production of raw materials, and the more labour employed in the ! articles produced the greater the num berot bread-winners and their dependants who benefit. When we purchase , goods manufactured iu the country j our money employs the I ime of tnauy i workers other than those immediately engaged iu the making of those goods. The manufacturer must have his raw materials, and hj best market our producers have is the local one where their products are used to employ fellow New- Zealanders fabricating them into the finished articles. The manufacturer must also be supplied with other partially and fully manufactured goods: he must employ machinery as j veil as labour, and use power from j other producers. He needs cans, cases, cardboard, and other containers, with labels. - rapping paper, circulars. advertising matter, and a hundred and one other aids to modern industry. All this means that the money we spend in buying our local goods is spread in a circular wave in all directions, and the stronger that wave iu, the greater and more widespread the prosperity it carries with it. We are not only throwing a stone into that stagnant pool of industrial slackness, i we are casting bread upon the waters of local industry which ultimately returns to us in our shire of the general prosperity produced. BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

Every new factory built in New- j Zealand means building up our pro- ! duction of wealth, but every order sent overseas means increasing our external debt and adding to our al- j ready heavy burden of taxation in | meeting the interest and repayment • bihs. Recently a provincial Hospital and Charitable Aid Board sent an order tor bedsteads abroad when an equally i 3ood article at the same price could have been made here by our own New i Zealand workers. That order placed : locally would have given employment to our timber workers, furniture makers, wire workers, and metal workers. Bv spending its money abroad that Charitable Aid Board helps to aggravate the unemployment evil, 'ben it wonders why the dependants of the idle breadwinners approach the board for charitable relief, and the members complain of the drain on its 'wins, and the ratepayers who provide 1 '■Hem. Would it not be better for that i Hospital and Charitable Aid Board r« Ut a fence at the top of the 'bn rather than maintain an ambulance station at the bottom, and where Is the wisdom of keeping j men out of work by turning down •heir products, and then having to maintain their dependants with necessities of life? PRECEPT AND PRACTICE seems consistent to find ea jJ m S public men, from our Govj °f B ' Genera l and Prime Ministers u, ,® Wart * :i ’ s,r °ngly and eloquently arcs oya * New Zealanders to give ;„‘ e r en « l every time to goods made bisen • T '' r fellow workers, and then ' tr that our Government departthe rf kh bodies are spending outaia c ' 3 ®oney in the purchase of valn« ~ j ooc * B ' "hen those of equal her qualit y could be produced “7 our °wn workers from our own lals. What is the good of Lhe , C6n P® D3a ' lil 'g up their minds to con,on l h e purchase of made-in-custn^ eala " d Roods, only to find the ■n. , °f the public purse spendOonL “ard-earned money on im>vn~ Roods with no benefit to our > Unemployment Bill having j Ua third reading we may now ourselves to meet that re- ! 40>i n ‘ barbarism, a poll-tax of thirty ■ 'k-inir,- 9 a head on every male in the : air iHi« over 2( ! years of age. so that I beans e ' vor h ers may at least get the j letter ft subsistence. llow much ; 'bti| I m‘ t ' TOUld be if the 30s a head per 2e alanH ere speut on buying New ! 'lre ernVi 111^6 R° ot ls providing produe- i 'Vhilo oymeu t for our idle artisans. ; hij ar e spending about a mil tain the on ini P OI 'ted goods and re- j Si th«, R r . eate st importers of goods ‘°nUniio° we ma >' look forward to "Oiled l* r p v id!ng subsistence for idle tur a'nH° rkers ' When we make up r el!anc e aS A a Policy of sturdy self'•arstivj. 0 ., m pke wbat we can for bus. - n keeping our own workers *lll b e „ ad of outsiders, then there fistenct, a ueed for poll taxes and subh«sy .'pies, as our workers will be buli?u happy applying our needs j [ or the k * ng up the country's wealth benefit of all. J nd* n if' ld ° ur Workers' Goods ee P Our Goo«* Workers