LARGER OUTPUT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19894, 23 March 1939, Page 5

LARGER OUTPUT

INCREASED INCOME PLEDGE TO WORKERS ! DOMINION FACTORIES MR. SAVAGE’S ASSURANCE (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “My pledge is that every increase in production shall be reflected in your income. You are going to get your share,” said the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, addressing the employees of an Auckland factory yesterday. “We are engaged In a big )°b,” Mr. Savage said. “It is to build New Zealand and we want to make the path through life easier than it has been We cannot lift our standard of hie unless we produce in greater quantife than ever before. Ojtr job .s to get things going with a swing. By the control of imports the Govejnment had, in effect, selected the things it was going to take fro ibroad and its promise was that tne things that had been shut out would he produced in New Zealand, that were done, the standard must fall. Increase in Production Mr Savage expressed the hope that production would be increased and Se a idle that, in any increase ?n production, the workers would share. Mr. Savage spoke oni similar lines K ,. v everything else needed aoroaa. That of the reasons why import’ control was introduced, he con"tinued. “As the trade of New Zealand expands, our job is to see: to tha your incomes expand too. There is sentiment in that. Unless the rani it" ‘he something like equal to the value or their production, we are bou d have periods of unemployment. Employer and Employee The Prime Minister said he was nnt talking at anyone when he made toose remarks, but was meaning them heard by employer and emto be hear y Government was “Sf»rth"S“ able to buy it. He appealed to the producers to do better than ever before. “Never forget that the Government nf vour own country begins in the of y°or ffhe Government workshops, he said, me would get a lot of abuse m the d ) to conJ, but it had had some m the past and was not afraid of it. “If you go slow any Government will tumble before your eyes, Mr. qcivaee said in making his final ad Savage said » The Government insetting out to build New Zealand industry We are not satisfied )ust to Sir Sws; however, important they i wp nre asking the people to STmore than etS before, We are asking for the best that “ “J™ “ fill the gap created by import Mr. Savage appealed to the employers. He said that unless the firms had somf guarantee of security, they could notbeexpected to accent increased risks. His woros Sphed both to those who reee.ved wages and those who paid them. ISOLATION POSSIBLE DOMINION FROM WORLD TREND OF EVENTS MR. SAVAGE’S OPINIONS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Tjossibil'ity of New Zealand, beoS Sam trend of world events, being isolated from the re M. JSKaa ge trSd whether he visualised New Zealand being an industrial country. “To a large extent I do, be replied. “1 do not say this merely because I have certain ideas in my own mind, 5t because of the trend of world events. Most countries are providing for themselves in the way of prima y production to-day or, at least, the Countries which are doing so are increasing in numbers. ~ “Foreign or international relation- * Ships are changing so rapidly at the present time as to make it possible f a country like New Zealand to be isolated from the rest of the world for ye “ You will see, .therefore, that you do not only have a normal trend towards what is called economic nationalism, but it is a natural trend to produce what you need. . “International relationships to-day are in such a position that they make it possible for conflicts to arisewhich may keep New Zealand isolated. For that reason, it is our bounden du y nreuare for the worst, not only m defence along the ordinary lines, but in industrial development which the defence of the country will largely depend.”