TRADE RECONSTRUCTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3454, 7 April 1920, Page 6

TRADE RECONSTRUCTION.

BRITISH BUSINESS MEN ’S IDEK-S7

A number of views of British} business men on “Peace Trade Recon’-s.t-ruction” appear in the “_Empil-.e Call for January '2O. One voices the views of many others, but more em: phaticailly uy writing. “For heaven~’s cake spare our trade from any more Goverunicnt interference; the less we have of that the better for the country.” He also refers to the “coal muddle,” and the absurdity of charging manufacturers more than householders. Another blames the failure of the railway service to introduce -three shifts per diem to countel;a,c,t. the 'clll'taillnc-nt of operations invol}{e.('l‘,‘,l)y the iutroduceion ‘of the eight—hou_r slay. OIIOTCPIY is: “The most effectivchstep the Government could take’, ,in, ~ our trade (steel industry) is to step out of it altogether.=" Still another equally briefly answers: “N 0 employmeni-, pay for the slacker and the ca’ canny.” A frequent -answer is: “What: needs to be done is for the Govern». ment to return to their own work of of the country to do the trading.” ‘ How soon the cry of the war against ever dealing in German goods in the future is forgotten by traders is shown by the following refily from firm of clothiers: “With regard to the threatened German trade invasion,——— Gerniany can never pay her debts unless she can trade extensively. A strong country‘ is of greater good to the whole than a weak one. If her trade invasion is going to make her SHONE. it is Up to us to encourage it for the common good. As to who shall mould her character is another ques~ tion.” l ?I