FEDERAL ELECTION

Grey River Argus, 18 July 1941, Page 4

FEDERAL ELECTION

Not For Menzies (Rec. 12.50 a.m.). SYDNEY. July 17. The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies, has .repudiated the suggestion in the daily press that the Government is considering the holdi/i.; of a general election. He said that “all of the talk and fuss about the prospect of an early election was coming from the Deputy Leader of the Federal Labour Partv. Mr Frank Fordo, and his colleagues.” Mr Menzies said he was quite sure that the people of Australia would resent another election at this stage. He hoped that the Labour members who were ad vacating a general election, would cut political cack’e and faclitatn the Government in th? task of specd'ng up the war effort. Mr Forde has urged Ihe takiirover by the Commonwealth of Do Broken H ! ll Pronr'etarv Conwny's industries as cabled ve't'Tdav Mr Menzies said: “This ’s trailin'’ a red herring. It. simply could not be done.” Mr Menzies’s Eulogy OF AUSTRALIA’S BIGGES! MONOPOLY. (Rec. 1.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 17. Mr Menzies defended the Broken Hill Proprietary Company as to their efforts on behalf of the war, its endeavours to supply the Government’s needs in raw materials at minimum cost, and as to the vastness of its outnut of steel products with the least possible delay. He said no sensible person could imagin? that a batch of amateurs could be fitted intu the places of those responsible for Ihe direction of the Broken Hill Pty. Company’s heavy indu.str'es w’th anything like the degree of success which marked the Company’s operations Indeed, the' Australian neop’e would not countenance Mr Fm-cle’’ idea, which was political control of an industry which constitute'! the very fouiTiMion ef ih« effort.