MUST GET TOGETHER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 9

MUST GET TOGETHER

LATE EDITION

“CUT OUT THE DEAD WOOD.”

MR. BALDWIN’S EXHORTATION.

AN APPEAL TO LANCASHIRE

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC

TELEGRAPH—COP Y RIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATIONUNITED SERVICE.) Received 1.10 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 16

“For every shilling 1 possessed when I became Prime Minister, I have igot something under a penny to-day,, owang to the vicissitudes of the steel industry,' said the lit. Hon. Stanley Baldwin at tiie British Cotton-growing Association’si luncheon at Manchester. ‘‘l only ,say that to make you: fedl that I am one of yourselves, concerned! in an industry which is in deep waters. CThere is only one way out in the steel industries, ’ that is (the capital must come down until it represented live assets. Bet one better times are possible, all must make sacrifices, perhaps even the bankers 1 , who are better in having living customers than corpses. .Lancashire always had a thundering good opinion of itself; now is a chance for justifying the claim and to take the lead. tingland must get together, out out the dead 1 wood, and clean up the mess due to the boom of 1919. I always hn.vo an immense faith that when it comes to mixing brains and business, this old country can beat the world.” He paid a tribute to the success with which tine cotton trade was overcoming the problem of the supply of Empire cotton-growing. He paid a tribute to thei cotton operatives, grandsons of the men who tightened their belts and helped to carry Lancashire through the American civil war. Masters and men stood together repeatedly, and masters should think twine or. three times before they sacrificed such a great .record of partnership. England had always been proud of Lancashire and would be infinitely prouder if it took off its coat, rolled Up its sleeves, and set to, grimlv determined to pull through a time that would daunt all but the most courageous.”