WAKE UP, ENGLAND!
MR. HUGHES SOUNDS AN ALARM. LONDON, July 2. Ml-_ Newton. Moore entertained‘ Mr Hughes at lunfihcon at the liouse of Commons_ Wl-.'_Hughes said he viewed the industrial future of Britain with apprehension. He prediction the greatest trade war in 11i<.t-ol'y_, adding that England was fine w«n‘.~‘t equipped nation to meet it. A.ustra‘lia paid the highest labour prices of any country in the world. _yet could bezff England in the Wol'ld"S coal I)‘.€ll‘l{-'-3‘.".,,‘ if freights were normal, not because the price of labour was high or low, but bocaiiso of the greahéy produ-,-titm. He urged England to I'ealiSe that the question was not whether more would be c:l.pi’calism or no «.=apitalism, Socialism or no Socialism, but whether the people would Work at not Work. Mr. Hughes urged more rapid and cheaper means of connuunic2.i:ioll and interchange with the Dom‘='rli-vn.
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Taihape Daily Times, 5 July 1919, Page 2
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141WAKE UP, ENGLAND! Taihape Daily Times, 5 July 1919, Page 2
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