"NO SHORT CUT TO PARADISE."

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17247, 10 September 1921, Page 3

"NO SHORT CUT TO PARADISE."

(raou our own coKßKsroraEKi.) LONDON, July 28. Mr J. H. Thomas, M.P., speaking at Derby, said: — "I can quite understand the antiwaste campaign, but I differentiate between the kind of expenditure which some of these anti-waste people believe in and the kind of saving which Labour i 3 anxious to bring about. You are entitled to say if there is no money we must tolerate the position, but how many of you know that this year the Government built an experimental airship costing one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, or nearly as much as their total housing programme for the year. Imagine tho hypocrisy of the whole thing. Then in their agricultural policy, which they have now reversed, they provided nineteen millions as bonus to the farmer to encourage him to grow food for the people, a very wise and necessary provision, but imagine our surprise when we realised, that out of that nineteen millions they are paying a bonus at the present time of eleven millions and a half for growing oats for horse 9. Two hundred thousand pounds for housing for tho people; eleven and a half millions for oats for horses." Speaking against strikes, Mr Thomas urged workers not to be misletl by people who told them there was a shorti cut to Paradise by downing tools.