FOOD SHORTAGE

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 233, 3 October 1933, Page 8

FOOD SHORTAGE

NEW YORK'S PLIGHT

DRIVERS ON STRIKE.

Roosevelt's Straight Talk To Ex-Servicemen.

LABOUR'S DEFINITE STAND

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright)

(Received 1.30 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, October 2.

President Roosevelt's address at the opening of the Legionnaires' Convention in Chicago was to-day's N.R.A. "highlight."

While the President's speech briefly sketched his actual participation in the World War fighting front and the Xortli Sea and English Channel, the "meat" of his address was his reiteration of his views with regard to the veterans' bonus.

"The Government," lie said, "has responsibilities for and toward those who suffered injury or contracted disease while in service," but "no person, because he wore a uniform must hereafter be placed in a special class of beneficiaries over and above all other citizens."

Meanwhile, there are further developments on the N.E.A. front. A serious food shortage is possible in New York, as 20,000 truck drivers started a strike early this morning. Within a few hours the piers were piled high with undelivered flour, grocery supplies, and other goods. In many instances violence was reported, including the dumping of a lorry-load of flour into the sea.

The Edgewater motor assembly plant of the Ford company, like that at Chester, was ordered to, close down by Mr. Ford to-day.

Mr. William Green, at tlie opening of the convention of the American Federation of Labour in Washington, not only demanded a 30-hour week, but criticised the hours and wages set up for many of the codes, and declared that Labour was "unflinchingly against inflation."

He also stated that Labour knew that ■when the dollar was cheapened prices would rise and wages would stand still. He was not opposed to credit expansion.

The N.E.A. to-ilay announced an immediate canvass of every employer in the country 111 order to determine the new employment increase on pay-rolls brought about by the recovery programme since July 15. This census will be carried out by means of 3,000,000 confidential questionnaires.