SELFISH INDUSTRIES

Grey River Argus, 30 June 1942, Page 3

SELFISH INDUSTRIES

AUSTRALIAN PROFIT-SEEKING

AT EXPANSE OF WAR EFFORT.

(Rec. 1.10.) SYDNEY, June 29. “There is still to much complacency in certain quarters in regard to the extent to which the economic life of this community is required to be organised for war. Individual interests are demanding that they should remain immune from sacrifices that all must share.” declared, the Minister for War Organisation, Mr. Dedman, in making it clean today that the Governing out to scotch this utterly,attitude.” Mr, the philosophy of every maA iWp himself, every industry for'L' e Wif. was still §o rampant that it w«T sappmg the community’s will to win. Too many people and too many industries were saying: “Peace is coming”; Let us get ready ahead jf our neighbours in the great race for profits which will then be staged. Those vested interests, which, while admitting the necessity for the di; version of resources from non-essen-tial activities to production for war purposes, insisted that they should be left untouched were adopting an utterly selfish attitude, in fact a form of defeatism that the Government would not tolerate.”