BROKEN HILL
STATE CONTROL PROPOSAL. REJECTED BY FEDERAL PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, July 18. lit'the course of his reply to the suggestion of the Deputy-Leader of the Federal Labour Party, Mr Forde, that the Government should take over the Broken Hill Corporation, the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, defended the Broken Hill Company's efforts on behalf of the war, its endeavours to supply the Government's needs of raw materials at a minimum cost, and the vastness of its output of steel products with the least possible delay. No sensible person, he said, could imagine that a batch of amateurs could be fitted into the places of those responsible for the direction of the company’s heavy industries with anything like the degree of success which marked the company’s operations.
Indeed, the Australian people would not countenance Mr Forde’s idea of political control of an industry which constituted the very foundation of the war effort.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 2
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154BROKEN HILL Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 2
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