POST WAR HUN COMPETITION.

Free Lance, Volume XIX, Issue 993, 16 July 1919, Page 6

POST WAR HUN COMPETITION.

Keep Out the Made in Germany Article THE Feee Lance is glad to notice the declared intention of the New Zealand Women's Anti-German League to discredit, discourage, and, as far as may be possible, actually prevent the importation of Germanmade goods. In the fatuous, so-called "manifesto" of the "Labour' ',• party ■on the war, stress was laid upon the alleged folly and; injustice of an economic warfare being waged against the Hun. "Forget and Forgive, and let Fritz have open access to our market, 5 ' is in fact what the Red Fed. extremists apparently desire. But how would such a policy affect the future of the British —and the New Zealand —worker? Let us see what so shrewd an expert on commercial and industrial problems as Sir Eric Geddes has to say on Germany's industrial formidableness, as quoted by Sir. Joseph Cook at the farewell dinner given to the Hon. W. M. Hughes in London last week:

Germany has got what she never had l before, a currency so depreciated that when she resumes oQmpetition she can get three days' work for a pound even if she pays her workmen thirty majrks a day. Germany stands in an unrivalled position for commercial competition.

And yet it is to Germany, our bitter and still dangerous enemy, that certain unpatriotic "Labour" leaders in this country would fain grant unrestricted trading facilities. The Women's Anti-German League are on. the right track wihen they declare war against any importations of Germanmade goods. The women of New Zetland have this matter largely in their own hands. Let them quietly boycott all such firms as import Hun-made articles, which will take the bread out of the mouths of the New Zealand industrialists, and thev can save the workers of the Dominion from a very real and grave danger.