SHACKLES OF INDUSTRY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 22

SHACKLES OF INDUSTRY.

LIMITATION OF OUTPUT. LORD LEVERHULME'S WARNING. (From Ou.ti Own Correspondent.) LONDON, April 15. Opening tho Nation’s Food Exhibition, Lord Leverhulmo said that what had impressed him during his recent travels was that wherever he had been British live stock was valued higher than that of any other nation. To what was this high estimate duo? ‘‘No society,” said Lord Leverbulmc, "lias ever said to the farmer, ‘ You must not brood better stock.’ I should like to set) any society which would attempt to dictate to him on these linos. But I know there are men in tho United Kingdom who allow their trade union to dictate to (hem what exercise they shall make of tho ability God Almighty has given thorn. There is a kind of loyalty, a mistaken loyalty, which believes that tho cure for unemployment is to restrict output, and not to produce tho best wo are capable of producing. Such a policy as that would not have placed tho British farmer in his position, and British live stock would not be set over that of any other country in the world if any limitation had been placed on the farmer. ” Now, why should any body of men walking the soil of Groat Britain bo willing to put on the shackles of slavery and accept conditions that will bring this country, as assuredly as we are here, not to rank with the foremost nations, but a long way behind our cousins, the great peoples across the Atlantic? A mechanic working, say, in Liverpool, who just pays his faro to the United States and manages to set foot on American soil, finds these shackle's on the limitation of output fall off him. Wliv should be submit to them here?” The British workman, he went on, is inst. as highly nrized abroad as British jive stock. No other immigrant in America so speedilv finds employment. The stock is as high and as right as it ever was: what is wrong is to be found in the new-fangled ideas, the new rules that are throttling industry. “ I am certain,” he added, “that I’p’s ■‘-■’i-, of affairs cannot continue much longer—we shall see that the world's market is due to pood service, and this means increased output. Tf wo set our minds to it we can regain very speedily- the high position we have hitherto occupied in fhe production of goods. We have not lost our reputation for quality—that, stands pre-eminent. What we want is increased output.”