LABOUR MEMBERS

Southland Times, Issue 22293, 7 April 1934, Page 6

LABOUR MEMBERS

VISIT TO WOOLSTON. EMPLOYEES ADDRESSED. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, April 6: The members of the Parliamentary Labour Party who have been attending the annual conference to-day visited the Woolston Tanneries, and after an inspection of the works addressed the employees. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr M. J. Savage, M.P., said that nowadays most countries produced nearly all their requirements, and the Labour Party held that if New Zealand could not sell her goods overseas she must sell them within the Dominion. The Labour Party intended to find out what was made and what could be made in New Zealand. The time was opportune for the development of the home market. At the first opportunity the Labour Party would see that there was a further development of secondary industries. Mr F. Langstone, M.P., said that the standard of living in New Zealand could no longer be linked with that of any other countries. In the development of secondary industries lay the greatest chance of solving the unemployment problems. Mr R. Semple, M.P:, said that they must make the Dominion their workshop. He hoped before the year was out that the people would.be given a chance of expressing their opinions through the ballot box on the present Government’s policy of commercial suicide. Mr McKeen dealt chiefly with the problem of finding employment for young people and he said that the only opportunity for the young was in secondary industries.