MORE PRODUCTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1927, Page 10

MORE PRODUCTION.

DOMINION INDUSTRIES. - ' JKAJrUFACTTOUUUP APPEAL. SOLUTIONOF UNEMPLOYMENT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. "The prosperity of New Zealand and the solution of our unemployment ques-tion-are to be found in production, both primary and secondary—more work, more goodtj, more money, more prosperity, more comfort and greater security," declared . Mr. F. Campbell in bis presidential address at the annual meeting of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association, to-night. Mr. Campbell said he was-not in favour of abolishing the Arbitration Court as it had- done good work, both for the employee and employer.. > He believed it heeded revising. It was asserted that if' the Court were abolished. wages would be reduced and lower prices result. He was not in favour of lowering wages. Lower wages, in Ins opinion, meant ,a lower: standardofliving. "Look at America's industrial pros* perity and efficiency to-day," said Mr. Campbell, "aid you will see it was not attained by lowering wages, but mainly by the fact that the manufacturers are assisted in the development of their home market by complete freedom from tariff restrictions within'the Union and by protection against competition from outside by .a strong , tariff machine, which is capable of easy, aid rapid, adjustment to meet changing, circumstaipes. Where America' succeeded .New ' Zealand can succeed. 1 am not claiming that protection is the solution of our unemployment question. . The solution, I believe, is production. We cannot, become really prosperous without. full . production,. and the goods* must come through the work of everyone of us.' .It is in tlvs way. that individual and national .prosperity will come.'- 7 *T. know some critics will say . the worker will not give us his maximum output.. I - wonder if wje'have -ever thought why. , Might it not be that he is a little afraid of working himself out of m ; position?i That is a wrong attitude,but it is logical. Here is where protection is needed, to preserve for the 'worker his; own home market, particularly in those industries suitable to his country.:. ' By that I-mean where the raw are riatural to his country. See the manufactured goods needed? in his home market are made in his: own I market, and not imported ftbm countries where the standard of living, the.; wages paid, .and the • Infc, of labour are <,netequaltothoee in ~ t '«