WITHDRAW PRODUCTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 5

WITHDRAW PRODUCTION

REPLY TO SOCIALISATION AUSTRALIAN FARMERS’ WARNING N.Z.P.A.—Copyright Rec. 9.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 4. The primary industries will withdraw from production if the State or Federal Governments intend to socialise the means of production, distribution, and exchange. This warning was issued to-day by Mr H. S. Robertson, president of the Executive Council of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association of New South Wales, at its annual meeting to-day. “The community must be prepared for a breakdown that will not be confined to coal, gas, electricity, or transport,” he added. The secondary and tertiary industries have been placed under a rule of the new political nostrum geared down to create conditions of chronic scarcity that is deliberately designed to be permanent. The fatal flaw 6 in the ideologies of Socialism and Communism is revealed in the present situation, which presupposes that the primary industries will stay m production regardless of political social and economic circumstances. It must be obvious that the paralysis that has been inflicted on the secondary and tertiary industries is bound to precipitate a crisis in which primary production will cease.”