WAR & EMPLOYMENT
CRITICISM OF AUSTRALIAN POLICY. BUSNESS MAN'S COMPLAINT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, August 8. Addressnig the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in Sydney today, the president, Mr Gordon Jones, complained that the Commonwealth Government policy was leading to serious unemployment. He pointed out that it should be realised that only a relatively small proportion of manufacturers could directly or indirectly be engaged in war activities. The Government’s war policy appeared to have an entire disregard for its effect on employment. “We have the spectacle of Cabinet pulling in almost as many directions as there are Ministers,” he said. “We have one Minister advocating business as usual and another urging the people to spend less and save every penny. Manufacturers have also found that senior Government officers held views diametrically opposed to their Ministers.”
Mr Jones contended that Australia’s war policy should be fundamentally based on the maintenance of employ'ment for all employable people.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1940, Page 2
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