COMMONS DEBATE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1942, Page 4

COMMONS DEBATE

ANXIETY ABOUT PRODUCTION EXPRESSED BY LABOUR MEMBER. TRADE UNION CONGRESS WARNING. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright i (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, January 29. Resuming the House-of Commons war debate, Mr Noel Baker (Labour) said Mr Churchill would make a grave mistake if he fastened his eyes only on a general desire of the House of Commons to give him its confidence and not. note the very real and deep anxiety which existed there, deep anxiety about production. He urged the Government to listen to the Trade Union Congress warnings. For that matter many who did not belong to the Labour Party also vehemently held the view that big private enterprise cartels and corporations were being allowed to pursue policies which did not help the greatest war production. There was still friction, waste and overlapping, due to the fact that there were three supply departments instead

of one. Mr D. N. Pritt (Labour) asserted that Ministers with a record of warmth towards Fascism held office owing to their party positions. The longer Mr Churchill stood by them and the more anxious the situation became and the more dangerous would these Ministers be. He did not believe the House was so poor it could not supply better Ministers.