TO HAVE ITS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 9

TO HAVE ITS DAY.

YOUTH IN INDUSTRY.

Britain Will Emerge World's Most Efficient Nation.

BALDWIN'S PREDICTION.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

LONDON, November 23.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, to-day gave an address at a conference of Scottish Conservatives at Glasgow. There were 6000 people present. • The speech was relayed to 3000 persons in an adjacent hall.

Mr. Baldwin said there was a spirit of give and take in Europe which was absent in pre-war days. This afforded a happy augury for the future.

More had been accomplished in the past eight years, largely by the present Government, than any other country had achieved in connection with slum improvement.

British industry was justifying itself in the face of the world, and Britain would emerge as the most efficient industrial nation on earth.

But tho youth and ability of the nation must help to regain that supremacy. This was not the time for incompetent people, whatever their age might be. Numbers of men battened oh joint-stock companies as managers. There were also directors who were parasitical, and the country would not tolerate that while the rationalisation of industry was making idle hundreds of thousands of persons. Those who arrogated to themselves freehold positions would not remove themselves unless they were bribed.