WORKERS’ PART
LN THE LIBERTY LOAN CONTRIBUTION OF £10,000,000. SUGGESTED BY FEDERATION OF LABOUR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A Liberty Loan target for the wageearners of New Zealand was indicated by Mr F. P. Walsh, in a statement last' * night on behalf of the New Zealand Federation of Labour. This body has affiliations representing 200,000 workers, who, said Mr Walsh, earn the larger part of the Dominion’s wage bill, which is over £100,000,000 per annum. “Would it be too much of a sacrifice,” asked Mr Walsh, “for the workers of this country to subscribe two shillings out of every pound they earn and thus. . contribute £10,000,000 to defend their liberty, their standards of living, their culture and happiness in this loveliest of all lands? Look at the fate of our fellow workers in conquered Europe. When we think for only a moment on their suffering, their sacrifices, we no longer ask the question what have we at stake in this war. In all countries overrun by the Axis forces the trade union movement has been smashed, the liberties of the people extinguished. That has been its fate after many years of working and fighting to establish the rights of labour. Ruthless .torture and terror has been used against humble people to destroy all the things of life they held dear. We would do anything to save our country from such a fate, our own country, in which the gifts of nature and the work of reformers have made it possible to achieve economic and social conditions unsurpassed in any part of the.world.” From the first day of the war, added Mr Walsh, the Federation of Labour had pledged itself to use all its power and influence to help the Government in the fight against the forces of Fascism. All its members had been determined to do their part, whenever they called upon to work for the war effort. Every worker realised how necessary it was to make guns and aeroplanes, to produce food and load and man the ships to take it to Britain, and they must realise just as fully that it was no less essential to put their money into the Liberty Loan. The federation was taking its own advice, having made a £2,000 subscription.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1943, Page 2
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