MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

PED FOR INCREASED PRODUCTION. tO AVERT CHAOS. %7 Telegraph.—-Press Asm,—Copyright. Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, Aug. 26. Air. Brownlle, chairman of the Amalgamated Engineers, has written to Mr. Bowerman, the Parliamentary secretary of the Trades Union Congress drawing attention to the grave national situation. He says that only increased pro- ' dilation can avert the chaos. The trade unionists cannot evade their responslbilties to the community, and the Labor leaden must endeavor to alleviate the situation. Merely increasing wages, Without increasing production, will not •era. ' : ,lfr.- Boverman admits the seriousness of the situation, and*says that trade unionists must concentrate to ensure intnaatd output. He will circularise the ' Congress Committee with a view to conjHat taking action.—Aus.-NZ Cable

WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION ..:...„. .SUSPENDED, • sQUTESTTON OF CONVERTING TO MERCHANTMEN. Received Aug. 28, 8.40 p.m. . . London, Aug. 28. -tfhe Admiralty has suspended the con- ' fetructitm of sixty large cruisers, destroyers and submarines, in twenty shipbuilding, yards. An expert committee is considering whether the ships should be broken up or the hulls completed with a view to conversion to mercantile purposes, for which many of the smaller craft are suitable.—Aus. NX Cable Association. ' • Received Aug. 27, 8.40 p.m. London, Aug. 27. The suspension of naval construction Work on the Clyde affects 10,000 workers, of whom 8000 will be immediately ab~ aerbtd in building merchantmen.

( IMMEDIATE ECONOMY. PREMIER'S PLAIN ORDERS. Received Aug. 27,10.30 p.m. London, Aug. 27. tilt. Lloyd George, hi a letter to his fcolleagHieSj dated August 20, urges the immediate cutting down of expenditure, for-which there is strong feeling in the Souse of Commons, the press and the country. 'The time, he states, has arrived .for each Minister to impress on the leads of the various branches of the administrative departments that if tfcoy cannot reduce expenditure they mdst make room for somebody who can. Everything in excess of what is indispensable to sound administration must M cut down.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. REORGANISING' THE TREASURY. IHE COMMITTEE'S SCHEME.

Received Aug. 27, 8.40 p.m. London, Aug. 27. The Cabinet's Finance Committee's soheme for the reorganisation of Treasury control over State expenditure establishes three departments within the under controllers, to deal respectively with the establishment's supply services and general administration. »-»Aut. N.Z, Cable Assoc. itV PBPATRIATION APPOINTMENT. ' Received Aug. 28, 145 a.m. London, Aug. 27. •Hit J.- Swanwick Bradbury (joint JtrffisMitt Secretary to the Treasury), M» been anointed as the principal Britain .representative oh the Repatriation Cotamlttee at Paris.—Aus.-KZ- Cable 4»P-. r •■■•■■'...•■.

, .. ;ltmpa AND INCOME-TAX, : „ An* 27, 9,30 p.m. • - ■ London, A«g. 27. •' I*e South Wales Minera' retention tave re-asserted their determination not to nay income tax on incomes under !dE2SO- f "TWy rejected the executive's proposal that, in view of the recent abatements, the matter should be left to the Miners' Federation of Great Britak.—Aui. NX Cable Assoc