PLANNED PRODUCTION

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21227, 25 September 1940, Page 9

PLANNED PRODUCTION

(To the Editor) Sir, —Now that I have disposed of Mr Crabb’s claim that he did not advocate equal pay for unequal work by showing that he advocated that or something more unjust, I have the opportunity of dealing with his advocacy of planned production. This “planned production” is a great Socialist cliche, but most of its advocates seemed, when put to the test, to know very little about it. The chief objection of the socialists to our present method of production is that they do not plan it; this more than that it fails to deliver the goods, for it does that better than the planned production of Italy, Germany and Russia. Surely Mr Crabb, and nobody else, can even dream that the enormous production of present days is carried on without intelligent and skilful planning, but is the result of pure chance! Any person believing in that myth should read a few trade journals dealing with the great productive agencies of the world. Dalgety’s Review is an excellent one for the wool trade. I present Mr Crabb with the following problem: The population of Greater London is well over 8,000,000; therefore, materials for 24,000,000 meals and the means of cooking them must be provided daily, and are. Mr Crabb, are those 24,000,000 meals just a miracle —a mere fortuitous concourse of atoms—or the result of careful and efficient planning? Now, Mr Crabb and Co., don’t all speak at once.—l am, etc., A. WARBURTON. Ngaruawahia, September 23.