POSTWAR TASK

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 229, 24 June 1941, Page 8

POSTWAR TASK

Preparing For Return To Civilian Life PLANS TAKING SHAPE (British Official Wireless.» (Received June 23, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, June 22. Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without portfolio, in a speech at Wakefield, said: “It is my particular task to study ways and means of meeting the claims of peopies upon their leaders for the establishment in the world of conditions of freedom and security and more civilized ways of life. “When one is making plans, bringing people together to formulate agreed proposals and setting forth complicated problems requiring interdepartmental co-operation and consultation over t wide field, it is not easy to explain ‘it any given moment how things are taking shape. They certainly are taking shape. “There is first aud foremost the prob lem of enabling men in the fighting see yices to return at the. earliest possible time when the war ends to the'freedom of civilian life. It is not a simple pfob lem. It has many aspects and vast ramifications. . But we are getting on with the framing of plans to ensure that demobilization wlttr it comes will not spell unemployment demoralization, or want. “A smooth aud order:} release of fighting meu from th” restraints of military service can ta effected It means planning ahead It involve.- rite consideration of related problems Among these I place in the forefront of my studies of the immediate post war situation the question of peace time uses that can lie made of vastly extended productive equipment called into being by the war needs “It is now generally recognized that labour, as a vital element in our economic system, must be accorded eondl tions which recognize its human needs and the part it plays in the national life We are studying in the most practical spirit the wartime developments of industrial production and rhe regulation of labour with a view to applying the lessons learnt to peacetime.”