STILL RAMPANT
PHILOSOPHY OF SELF AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY MINISTER OUTSPOKEN (9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 30. “There is still too much complacency in certain quarters in regard to the extent which the economic life in this community is required .to be organised, for war. Individual interests are demanding that they should remain immune from v the sacrifices - that all must share,” •declared the Minister of War Organisation, Mr. J. J. Dedman, in making it clear to-day 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 rampant that it was sapping the community’s will .to win. Too many people and too many industries were spying: “Peace is coming. Let us get ready ahead of our neighbours in' the great race for profits which will then be staged.” Those vested interests which, while admitting the necessity for a 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 and, in fact, a form of defeatism l/iat the Government would not tolerate.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 3
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191STILL RAMPANT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 3
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