NATIONALISING INDUSTRY.
OPPOSED BY TRADES UNIONIST DISASTROUS TO NATION. LONDON, August 21. Mr. XV. A. Appleton, general secretary of the Federation of Trades Unions, states that the nationalisation of industries is unsound economically, and would he disastrous from every standpoint. State monopoly was the most oppressive of all monopolies. He urges tho workers fo pause before it is too late, and refuse to listen to extremists.— (A. and N.Z.) LESSONS FROM AUSTRALASIA. POLITIC 3 AND EFFICIENCY. NEW YORK, August 24. The "New York Times" states editorially thr.it the testimony before the Britisii Coal Commission recently showed that the nationalisation of New Zealand and Australian industries was inefficient, due to political control. The workmen had no reason to be industrious, and the Government did not dare to make a decision, oven wheu absolutely necessary. The Cnited States and Britain should heed the lesson from the Antipodes—.(A. and NjZ. Cable.), _ v ,_. '. '.-...'._,...-
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 5
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