CONTROL OF INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1941, Page 6

CONTROL OF INDUSTRY

FEDERAL PROPOSALS CRITICISED BY MR CURTIN. FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY MR MENZIES. (Dy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Received This Dav, 12.45 p.m.) CANBERRA. This Day. The official views of the Federal Labour Party on the plans for an unlimited war effort were announced in the House of Representatives by Mr J. W. Curtin (Labour Leader). He expressed agreement with the decisions further to ration petrel, extend the Trades Union Advisory Panel, appoint a Minister of Supply and an Assistant-Minis-ter of Aircraft Production, but criticised that part of the speech of the Federal Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) dealing with Labour.

Existing industrial machinery should have been elaborated before the Government decided to prohibit strikes, said Mr Curtin. If the Government's powers were used capriciously, the position would become worse. The Government should collaborate with Labour rather than try to put Labour into a strait-jacket. He asked the Government to establish immediately a standing committee of both Houses to report constantly upon the social security of workers and the people entitled to soine instalments of the new social order as opportunity offered. Mr Menzies announced that the methods by which industry would be so designed as to cause the least possible hardship to employees. The Government had no intention, he said, of forcing the displacement of great bodies of men for whom work would not be available in war industries.