ADDRESS BY MR BEVAN

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26031, 7 February 1950, Page 5

ADDRESS BY MR BEVAN

SOCIALISATION PLANS DEFENDED LABOUR PARTY PLEDGE ON HOUSING <H ec. LONDON, February s Aneurin Minister of Health (Mr p?rtv • r ,’ peaku ’S at a Labour uarty rally m Liverpool, was cheered when he said the Labour Partv would famisv U h»rt l » I<ling i ? ou ? es until each ™ m!l y had a separate home. He add- ?£•,. . When we have done that, we shall have reached a higher standard known than the world has ever

Mr Bevan said that if the Government had not nationalised the coal industry, Britam would not have had national recovery, a national health °. r .“ cial reforms, because Britisn industry would have been stneken and languishing, and there have b ? en no flow of Wealth to start those reforms. Referring to the steel industry, Mr Bevan said that Britain had to have far more ambitious plans for steel tnan an annual Deduction of 15,500,000 tons, which the producers «^J med to . be almost saturation point. The men in the steel industry are not natural planners of plenty: thev are planners of scarcity,” Mr Bevan added.