ECONOMIC POSITION.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10832, 2 April 1932, Page 2

ECONOMIC POSITION.

STRIKE CONDEMNED. Christchurch, April L “Nothing is more certain thantli calling of a general strike, or er« the threat of it would at once astt gonise large sections of the puhlit,' says the “Christchurch Times" h commenting on the Wellington h hour Conference. The “Times” adds: “The wort® would lose far more than they coffi hope to gain by such methods. % the Dominion needs most atthes& ment is a clear-headed discussiontf the position. The Government j> proceeding apparentaly on the .* sumption that the country can'fc saved only by a reduction of cosir, a level that will leave the prime; producers with a profit. Our on belief is that this expectation esi not be realised, that costs cannotk so drastically reduced without ra dering the whole population bit) rupt, and that some other method* helping the primary producers *1 have to be discovered. It is to 4 solution of this problem that Labor should make some constructive contribution.”