OVER HILL IN YEAR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21979, 25 March 1946, Page 3

OVER HILL IN YEAR

BRITAIN’S OUTLOOK CIJMB TO RECOVERY PREMIER URGES WORK (10 a. ll-1.1 LONDON, March 24. Another 12 months of uninterrupted work and Britain will have topped the rise to recovery. That was the message the Prime Minister. Mr. C. R. Attlee, gave to the Birmingham Jewellery and Silversmith's Association when he was speaking at the annua! dinner. "We shall require discipline from the workers, particularly self-discip-line. We shall also require the right kind of leadership in managements. We shall need in our industry the same kind of esprit de corps that was found in our fighting forces.

"Britain cannot afford to waste her strength in quarrels over wages, hours, and conditions. We cannot afford stoppages in industry. We want the industrial machine to go forward with a steady rhythm. There is something seriously wrong with an industry where there are frequent strikes and lockouts. We are rightly proud that, in Britain, we have built up a great machinery for the settlement of disputes in which we set an example to the world. Having established this machinery, it is folly not to use it."

Mr. Attlee emphasised that the British standard of life was at stake. "We. in this first post-war winter, have come through a very difficult period. We, henceforward, can expect a steady increase in consumer goods.

“All the Government’s plans for education. national health service and a fuller life for all can conic from only one source—the work of British men and women allied to our natural resources.”