NEEDED IN FRANCE
ALL AVAILABLE MEN
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN* This Day;
Addressing a meeting of the Sheep' owners' Union, Mr. James Begg asserted that New Zealand was betraying the Allies' cause by the apathy and petty differences of workers, who demanded higher wages. Employe!^ retaining higher profits Were traitors, he said. Training camps were more important today than farm accommodation. No amount of inexperienced labour would have an immediate effect on the volume of exports. If such labour was available it was much more urgently required in France than here. "Britain," he said, "lost 30,000 men in the north of France. We should, and could, make good this loss in addition to our division;"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 134, 7 June 1940, Page 9
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115NEEDED IN FRANCE Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 134, 7 June 1940, Page 9
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