WORK HARDER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 29 April 1941, Page 5

WORK HARDER

BRITAIN’S EXAMPLE. REMINDER TO AMERICANS. (United Press Association—Copyright) j (9.4 b) W ASlliA Cel OJN , April 2ti. j Mr James Kemper, president of j the United States Chamber of I Commerce, speaking at the annual meeting, said every em- ! ployed person must do 25 per cent. ! more work if both the defence and j civilian needs of the country were i to be fulfilled. “We must either work more or go without some tilings we have won,'’ he said, “The present high level of business activity is being sustained by deience production and tiie British aid efforts. “Business and industry must begin now to develop a comprehensive postwar employment programme when the wholesale need tor employment again I becomes acute.’’ | Mr Kemper submitted a. scheme cabling for private and public business cooperation, investigation, and research aiming to utilise to the utmost resources and economic assets in a comprehensive post-war reconstruction and employment programme. Mr Kemper, concluding, urged taking a leat from Britain’s book. “She is under the very guns and bombs of Germany, and is pressed as we certainly are not. The British, nevertheless, have been most careful not to cripple industry producing foreign trade. Let us produce all-out to aid ! Britain, but do not let us make the j mistake of completely disrupting our economy by an hysterical derangement of normal production.” COAL DEADLOCK, A grave situation has been created by the collapse of the Defence Mediation Board s attempt to settle the coal strike, as many of the defence industries are already hampered as a result of a shortage of coal. The President’s private secretary (Mr S. Early; said Mr ltoosevelt was to-day making an intensive study of the coal deadlock. Mr Early said the situation was very serious. Mr ltoosevelt planned to confer especially with Mr Davis (actingchairman of the Mediation Board), surveying its unsuccessful efforts. The .Southern ltailroad has announced that it is suspending its services temporarily on 21 routes in the .Southern States in order to save coal for the main line services; 42 trains will be stopped after to-night. Only 20 days’ coal supply remains.