"PROFIT COMPLEX"

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 15

"PROFIT COMPLEX"

DISMISSAL OF YOUTHS

v-:-Mrj'i?W. J. Lyon (Government, WaitemataV said there were cases over the past lew months where youths had been "sacked" as soon as they reached the age of 21 years, and other youths had been taken on in their places. The slogan of private enterprise was to develop the profit complex to the maximum extent, and that necessitated cheap labour. There was a large number of employers with the profit com^ plex who were looking for cheap labour at every turn. It was considered axiomatic by these employers that every man over the age of forty should be thrown on the scrap heap and was definitely the responsibility of the State. It had been said that the-Government was a Socialist Government. He wished it. were true. Those men had as much right, to take their part in production as any other section of the community. Mr. A. F. Moncur (Government, Rotorua) said that the Maoris in his district were making remarkable progress with dairy farming. There was no lack of purchasing power in the farming districts, he said, because the farmers had had a wonderful year. In addition to the guaranteed price for dairy produce, stock was bringing a good price.