TOO MUCH COMPLACENCY
MINISTER REBUKES AUSTRALIANS
(Rec. 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 29. "There is still too much complacency in certain quarters with regard to the extent to which the economic life "_ of _ this community:, Cis . * required to be organised for the war. individual interests are demanding that they should remain immune from sacrifices that all must share," declared the Minister of War Organisation, Mr. J. J. Dedman, in making it clear today that the Government was out "to scotch this utterly selfish attitude."
Mr. Dedman said: "The philosophy of every man for himself and- every industry for itself was still so rampanivrthatv.ifc was? sapping .the community's will to win. Too many people and too many industries were saying: 'Peace is coming, let us get ready ahead of our neighbours in the great race fov profits which will then be staged'.?'..;j.--.v -v... ...
; Those- vested, interests .which, .while admitting the necessity • for., the. diversion of' resources from, non-essential
activities to production for war purposes, insisted that they should be left untouched, were adopting an utterly selfish attitude, in fact a form of defeatism which the Government would not tolerate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1942, Page 5
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