INDUSTRIES BILL
PROMOTING EFFICIENCY IN BRITAIN LONDON, Feb. 13. Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, moving the second reading of the Industrial Organisation Bill in the House of Commons, said it was designed to provide methods enabling private enterprise industries to bring themselves up to date and make themselves as efficient as possible in the production and distribution of their products. The bill was not intended to nationalise all industries. When the Government desired to bring further industries under national control it would act directly, not by subterfuge. Mr. Oliver Lyttelton (Conservative) said he agreed with the general objectives, but the bill was delegated legislation of the worst kind. It set up a new bureaucracy and a new range of patronage for the Government, therefore the Opposition would vote against it. The bill empoyers the Minister to appoint a council to carry out the recommendations of working parties investigating the efficiency of various industries. The second reading was carried by 258 votes to 125.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 February 1947, Page 6
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