NEW INDUSTRIES IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21646, 3 December 1935, Page 11

NEW INDUSTRIES IN BRITAIN

ESTABLISHMENT IN THE DEPRESSED AREAS MR BALDWIN'S PLEA . (BHITISH OtnCUX. WXSBUSSS.) (Received December 2, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, November 30. Speaking at Dundee, the Prime Minister, Mr Stanley. Baldwin, referred to- the special areas in which the worst effects of the post-war depressions had been felt. He said they must have their share of the newer industries. It was intended that a share of the work in the necessary re-equipment of the defence forces would go to these areas, and he appealed to those who had benefited by the Government's introduction of protection to do all in their power to see that when the new works were bult, they were put in Durham, Lanark, South Wales, or one of the other special areas. It was not only a question of increasing the opportunities for. employment, said Mr Baldwin, but of helping to stabilise it by developing industry in places, which past developments had often left dependent on a single industry. "I regard the introduction of new industries into some of. those areas as being the most important work' to which the British citizen can devote.his capital and brains for the benefit of his fellow men," Mr Baldwin declared. The Unionist party, as the most important part of the great movement which was supporting the National Government, was determined to proceed, in co-operation" with those of a like mind, in the task of bettering the conditions. of the people. Progress in the last genera- : tion had been great, .and social services were-far ahead of any, country in Europe, but they took that not as a justification for complacency, but as the greatest encouragement to go on and do more.