UNITY OF PURPOSE STRESSED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 124, 19 February 1941, Page 8

UNITY OF PURPOSE STRESSED

Industry In Britain WORKING FOR GREAT OBJECTIVE

i British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY. February 17

Broadcasting to Australian workers, the Minister of Labour and National Service, Air. E. Betin, stressed the unity of purpose that runs through British industry. “From the general manager right down there is the ieeling that lhe,v are working ior a great objective, he said. "There is no worry and agitation over profits. The kind of profiteer or economic vulture that operated in previous wars is tabooed by the public as a whole —he is outlawed."

Everyone lulled war. said Mr. Bevin, but there was something exciting about striving for the great purpose of overthrowing aggression ami brute foiee and giving the people of the world a real chance to live in peace, developing prosperity and culture, living their own lives and practising their own religions, ami learning to be tolerant and to trust, each other. As objectives these were worth achieving, Mr. Bevin said.

Regarding conscription of labour, he continued: “Now, you may have heard a lot of talk about conscription of labour—/veil, we are not doing anything of the kind. What we are doing is to register everybody to find out what their capabilities are. The people of this country do not need to be conscripted in the narrow ami limited sense and put under a kind of military control in order to make them do their duty. “What they say to us is,. 'We all want to do the most essential tiling to win the war. Tell us what to do and where we are to go.’ It is verv good to find out what they can do. We are registering them and we shall, as great factories come into production more and more as time goes on, call upon them to come forward and fill vacancies in these great, undertakings.”