PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

Evening Star, Issue 19032, 29 August 1925, Page 9

PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

AH EMPHATIC WARIJIJSG Prcm Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and K.Z. Press Association. BRISBANE, August 20. (Received August 20, at 10.55 a.m.) Air James Allen, the retiring president of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, in an address, said the present general tendency was to throttle industry and lessen production by shorter hours and increased cost. Work was looked upon as an unnecessary evil. Higher wages were demanded tor less output, and the money .scorned to he spent on amusement or unproductive idleness. One of the greatest saleguards against disaster would ho 1 beholding of bonds in small sums by people generally, and the discouragement of the acquirement of largo amounts by a privileged few. All the things said about the ha.su - . wdago and child endowment were beautiful ideas, continued Air Allen, hut they could not he materialised except by hard labor or increased production brought about by the close- co-operation of unskilled labor under competent leadership and capital. It seemed clear that fresh burdens could not be carried without disaster to the wageearner and ruin to many industries. The community could not go nu living on loans to enable it to pay high wages for lessoned production.