WORK PROBLEMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3440, 20 March 1920, Page 7

WORK PROBLEMS.

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(Imperial News Service.)

LONDON, March 18‘

in the "House of Commons Mr Qisquith said the Government ’s policy ought to start from a recognition of internationzil economic independence and be directed to the promotion at the ‘earliest possible moment of whole industrial machinery of civilisation with every reasonable facility which Allied Ayssociated Powers could give. i'l.‘l2at was the first and most essenltial step towards the restoration of normal prices. He emphasised the necessity for reduction of the flowing debt, and criticised the growth of the civil service estimates. He urged a world economic conference Should be convened as speedily as possible by the. League of Nations, and dwelt on the fact that there were still at least two million men under arms in Central Europe and the‘East. He hoped the ‘Allies would urge the new States and Eastern Europe to live peaceably one with another, and 1107 establish new economic and other barriers between tlremselves and their neighbours_ '_l‘lley should disband their forces and become one great economic unity. If this was done it would be an important factor in the solution of the economic problem." Mir Asquith warmly welcomed the League of Nations’ inquiry into Ihe conditions of Russia, and emphasised the need for the restoration of economic conditions with. Russia and the fullest; possible interaliunge with the great resOui’coS' Of Riissizl. So ‘.<m-Ir; as Britons preserved their capar-lit_v For luu-tl. lionest work, so long" as free play is given to ’nitiative and enterprise, open market maintained, and rigorous sleepless

cccmomy be observed, he had 710 fear whatever for the i_lldustriai and economic Future of Britain. ~