WORKING TO SAVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 103, 4 May 1942, Page 6

WORKING TO SAVE

OFFICE AND FACTORY

"Last week the Prime Minister called upon the people of New Zealand, to provide £133,000,000 for war expenditure," said the president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce (Mr. A. Leslie Wall)." today. "Today the public is asked to subscribe by way of loan £15,000,000, and I believe that the people who have money to lend will see that the loan is quickly taken up.

"The appeal issued last week as a measure of taxation affects everyone; a loan applies only to those who are able to lend, and this opportunity is the answer to the question which has not infrequently been asked recently by investors as to where investments can be made. As long as the Government is prepared to lend money on the terms of the present loan, there should be no idle money anywhere.

"But what of those who have no money to lend? Are they to be deprived of the opportunity of sharing in the Liberty Loan? Of all wage earners it can be said that they have a commodity equally valuable to lend and that is labour. 'Labour to lend' is a watchword which could well be adopted by all workers. t "We must work longer hours—office and workshop alike. Saturday must be a work-day, not a play-day. The extra hours worked should not be worked for the benefit of the employers. The extra wages thus gained by the workers should be lent to the Liberty Loan through savings clubs which could be instituted in every office, workshop, and factory, and, of course, among all outside workers, such as the building trade and transport workers, and so employers will do their share by subscribing directly to the loan and the employees will do their share through the savings clubs. A UNITED NATION. "Indeed, we are all 'employed* today in the service of the Dominion. Let us acknowledge the common bond by the immediate establishment of savings clubs on a comprehensive scale and thus prove to each other and to the Empire that New Zealand is united and determined. The immediate need is to lend money—the constant and dominant need is to lend labour and for all to labour to lend. "The National War Savings fcommittee should immediately tackle the problem of establishing savings clubs throughout the Dominion. The Government could arrange for a general increase in working hours and the money so earned could be saved and lent to the Government which has provided so much for the worker. I Work, that is what I mean by labour Ito lend."