APPEAL TO CAESAR

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 10

APPEAL TO CAESAR

OUR CLOTHES AND TABLE

In a local factory to-day there are seven or eight girls employed, where •normally there are over twenty. "See those two girls over there," said the factory owner to an "Evening Post "reporter, "those girls are sisters. Together thoy bring homo about as much money as their father, who works on the wharf. .If those girls were put off, as various other girla have been, well, you ■ can judgo the effect on the income' in that home.

"Thus you may got a glimpse into the development' of the thing called unemployment. ... I am not asking for an increase in the tariff on the article I sell. But I am asking every New Zealander to give voluntary preference, of his own accord, to any reasonably priced article that is 'made by other New Zealanders.' The reason must be obvious.

"My article will hold its own with any imported article in quality and price. That is truo of many New Zea-land-made articles. Yet they dp not command more than a percentage of New Zealand consumption. For that reason, plant and employees aro idle. With no loss to himself—indeed, with gain—tho New Zealand consumer could alter that What-is wanted is intelligent, mi-compelled preference of the New Zrnlancl made."