DANGER AHEAD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15080, 1 December 1919, Page 5

DANGER AHEAD.

• MEMBER .FOR HlirPS REMEDY. i-rjjk; warning a* to th© dangers New:. Zealand; has., to face-^during, the next •few ye^ra \va« -uttered' by, Mr T. : MWj I ford,^ v M.P.:v at!. Eastbourne. . . "There wiil be- no serioiis i&bdr. troubles uhtitthe elections "'.".afe 'pyoiyV he said, "but. I ;belieye: tljeVflfist -three ycoi's arc fraught with pei'ii an'di '..uncertainty.. Troubles were looming m. 1914 'when th© [, war cajne -aiiii '.-; pbscure4. ■. them, temporariljr} since th&n the fu-e had been smoulder-, ing, and/ unless, there ai'e elected^ strong men, willing: and. able -to observe, ■ and> to act. m time, thero will be suqh a. struggle as no one' w.i}l ; be. able to stop^ . . .Co-operaticcn yn the old- terms is. impossible. :■■• . The. Government to be elected, muafc immediately call a. national conference, of- 'employers,- employees, and GovernmeM. - DcpaVtmetital 1 'representatives . to r -work but a.- national .-^oWcy— and 'fii;id out what* machinery is required to make it and' helpful,-- whilst statesmen, worth the- name m the fuiiire; musil cc© that we neither buttress '■'. '<ss privileges iior '-.- estaljlis-h ; ne\V' ones, ."j have no :'fadth- -that • the war will creato r a «ew -world, -so -let- v us devote our best efforts- to improving old one. There .are impossible men "in* tho . lonts pT Capitalism and ■the ranks of Labor, and r \re must lift the bari-ier that Jias divided _ captains, and' privates of industry into hosti'e- camps and hhidercd. ;necos>> sary prpduotiou, andt<rear>ise that a nia.m works best .'when.' his work -wina iiim comfort, porsonal vecognitkui. respect, honor, and - reasonable -leisure. . .:' A ■natioival ' ciaiXorfeitiote will not euro all "ills, but- ;if. it cures fionie it will?leavo loss to-.- fight about- -afterwards;" V- ' .-.