BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 6 August 1919, Page 8

BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL UNREST

AUCKLAND. August 5

At the time when the delegates left for home, said Mr Massey, the industrial outlook in Britain was serious, un--1 est and difficulties of reconstructoii being contributing factors. It was considered, nevertheless, that signs of improvement were already bernr* manifested, and the hone was entertained that progress towards better conditions would continue. A general return to stability of conditons was hoped for as the unsettling effects of the long years of war passed awy. Industries supplying material for public works in New Zealand, Mr Massey stated, were returning to their normal functions after having devoted practically all their 'energy and resources to the production of munitions. Some time must elapse, however, before they would be nroducing anything like their pre-war output; in fact, it would be two years, in hk opinion, before they were producing on the same scale and at the same rate as before the war. This applied to practically all the industries to wheih we were accustomed to look for our supplies for the purposes mentioned.