LABOUR & WAR

Grey River Argus, 4 June 1942, Page 2

LABOUR & WAR

GENERAL HURLEY'S ADVICE

WELLINGTON, June 3. Addressing the Wellington Trades Council, the United States Minister, General Patrick J. Hurley, said that if Labour leadership were wise, it would forget all the conflicts of the past and turn the face resolutely to the future, uniting every element of the citizenship of New Zealand io bring the entire force of the Dominion to bear upon one objective, the defeat of the Axis powers. It would also insist that every element of citizenship participate in the management of the war effort. It was unjust and unpatriotic to ask men in the fighting forces to endure the hardships of war while others were reaping great profits out of it. The whole nation should become an economic unit, in which the industry of every individual contributed its part. It was up to us to convince the enemy that a free people could make liberty more efficient that slavery. . , , The Council carried a resolution promising the utmost loyalty to Mr Hurley and the fighting forces of the United States.