REDUNDANCY AND CO-ORDINATION

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 16

REDUNDANCY AND CO-ORDINATION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS Sir, —The Labour party has already fallen into one deep pit (higher taxation), and now the Hon. D. G. Sullivan is leading thnn to another deep quagmire—rationalisation. If these disciples of G. D. H. Cole (the Labour party), so eager to rationalise industry, did really make drastic experiments on a large scale they would disappear as a political force completely, leaving not a ripple or a floating hat to indicate the soot of the calamity. But no, the Labour party will be cautious; it will toy with the idea of rationalisation, talk loudly and strongly, as it has on high exchange and sales tax removals, and then do nothing. Redundancy! Cannot someone tell us what A. P. Herbert or was it A. A. Milne .said about this word. Redundant? Of course most of us are. Too many butchers, bakers, grocers, printers. editors, parsons, dentists, pensioners politicians, barbers, shop-keepers, lawyers, policemen, tailors, and tinkers Too many producers, too many mk men and not enough werk. Simply of course, because consumers lack the power to buy—that is money. Co-o dination! Another blessed word, meaning methodise, unravel, disembroil, settle, fix. Industry, like a car, is slowing up because the petrol tank is empty. The co-ordination chief (or fixer might sound more direct) orders new tyres, a new windscreen, together with st small measure of State petrol for the tank. At the same time the fixer turns most of the passengers off the car. workers and shareholders, as he assures everybody the car (industry) will run sweeter on a lighter load. In other words, if five dogs are quarrelling over one bone, hit four of them on the head, do not on any account provide more bones. Co-ordinate to disembroil. —Yours, etc., MONEY SHORTAGE. October 7, 1936.