LABOUR CONFER

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1937, Page 5

LABOUR CONFER

HELD AT GENEVA DISCUSSION ON REPORT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). > HUG BY, June 10. The Minister for Labour (Mr Ernest Brown), who is the chief British representative at the International Labour Conference in Geneva, taking part in the discussion on the Director's report, said lie was impressed by the relationship between the fortunes of the manufacturing world and those of the primary producers. He added that if a new slump were to be averted they must find means of matching the wonderful new capacity of the machine with the new and increasing demands for its produce. The International Labour Office had now established a permanent agricultural ! committee. It might well make a begin-1 ning by examining the nature of the agricultural industry in its relation to! the new productive capacity of the manufacturing world. He said he hoped it would he able to j give them , some guidance as to (1) How 1,200,000,000 primary pro- J ducers could he given a larger income 1 witli advantage to both producers and j consumers; I (2) How the manufacturing world as a. whole and the manufacturing producers should he related to their own primary producers, whether hy larger consumption of footstuffs and raw materials, or by a greater reward for the producers, or by a combination of both: