FARM WORKERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 217, 14 September 1939, Page 10

FARM WORKERS.

UNDER DEFENCE ACT ?

(Br Telegrnph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) . . WELLINGTON, this day. The Government was urged bv Mh F. W. Schramm (Government. Auckland East), in the House of Representatives yesterday to bring in early regulations to increase the volume of farm production. He said this should be one of the first steps taken under the Emergency Regulations Bill, which the House wa* at that moment considering. All farm workers, he said, should be brought under the Defence Act, and if it came to a question of increasing wages to maintain production the Government should not hesitate to pay these wages by an allocation from the defence funds. One of New Zealand', biggest reepon- j sibilities in the present conflict rested in the maintenance qf food supplies for the people of Great Britain, added Mr. Schramm. Everyone admitted that the | regulations would be drastic, but they i were none the less necessary. He hoped that these would deal swiftly with persons who were disseminating subversive propaganda throughout the Dominion.) Some of this material was unfair, mali- ! cious, untrue and disloyal Communist propaganda. Tt was for the Government to act and act promptly to put a sudden stop to the sort of thing that was going on. |