GIGANTIC STEPS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 26 November 1941, Page 9

GIGANTIC STEPS

U.S. AID TO EMPIRE N.Z. VISITOR’S IMPRESSION LABOUR’S POST-WAR TASK (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. “One of the impressions I got was that America is under no illusion as to what will happen if Nazism is not defeated. The people of the United States are definitely behind us in this war, and there is every evidence of the gigantic steps that are being taken to assist us and of immense projects in this direction which have yet to bear fruit,” said Mr. H. E. Moston, one of the Government representatives to the International Labour Office conferences in New York. One of the conference’s most important resolutions concerned the necessity for the 1.L.0. to take a hand in post-war reconstruction problems. The outstanding speaker was the Belgian Foreign Minister, who dwelt on the difficulties that would confront Europe at the conclusion of the war.

Mr. Moston said he had taken the opportunity of investigating labour disputes in the United States. It was disturbing to see pickets outside the works. In many cases, however, they were professional pickets, and did not seem to know what it was all about The position was complicated by the fact that there were two rival labour organisations fighting for power.