AFTER-WAR TRADE BOOM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 26 May 1917, Page 3

AFTER-WAR TRADE BOOM.

MR HODGE'S OPTIMISM

Mr John Hodge. M.P., Minister of I Lab°r» poking on "Capital and Labor, 1?" A««r-the-\var Problems," at the flfty-nmth meeting and dinner of the bales Managers' Association, held in i .uoiHion recently, said h e was an optimi^t, and believed that after the war j we were going to have a great period of , booming trade. It was impossible now •to get new machinery or renewals: we i H erf ws> rkin S from hand to mouth so j that after the war there must be a I great demand for renewals. Shipbuild ■I BOBld boom to an extent we had no.er Known' o.efore, and with th.c iron and steel trades booming every "other trade would boom in sympathy ."But all those industries which had been turned «• aannftfon-niaking mugt not leaifc uiiv.ii peuce \\citj uec^reu. Ti.t.- mu^t lay their plans now for the change Demobilisation would affect the labor mar ket to a very larg^ extent, and w e must see tnat th.c Army and Navy did not nood the labor market with too men at one time. Otherwise demobftfeau won might create destitution or «o appalling a kind tnat we should be fao* fe face with revolution. That wouici o e a noor reward to labor after the sacrifices of its old customs and privileges which had taken half a century to build up. His great desire was to have the heartiest and closest co-operation between, capital and labor in seeking to solve the problem. (Cheers).