POST-WAR PLANS
MEETING OF INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE NEED OF PEOPLE’S PEACE DECLARED BY MR BEVIN. WORK OF RECONSTRUCTION IN PROSPECT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 20. The Minister of Labour and National Service, Mr E. Bevin,, opened a three-day conference of the Emergency Committee of the International Labour Office, which is chiefly discussing post-war reconstruction. Tim committee, which was ai t ended by representalivcs <>! governments, employers and trade Unions from the Allied countries, was set up for war time purposes to act when necessary, in place of the governing body, which met in New York in 1941.
Mr Bevin said: “There is a people’s, not a ricn man's war. The world’s budgetary positions will be such as the resul; of the war that the idea of permanent fortunes being made out of it is impossible; therefore it is a people’s war. It must be a people’s peace. You cannot have decent civilisation if you leave- the peasant underpaid and, despite the fact that he grows the world’s ‘food, is underfed and in poverty. You cannot allow the industrialist to have his cartel, his trust-fixing arrangements and all other devices, while leaving the primary producer unprotected. It must mean suicide for the industrialist himself. It is the duty ol everybody to be ready to discipline themselves and curb every selfish interest in the decade after the close ol hostilities, in order that the world can be set on a course of peace and progressive development, and be prevented from relapsing into the attempted barbarism of this age. When the ‘cease fire’ comes there may be danger of tremendous reaction. The world’s statesmen and all those responsible foi the leadership of mankind must stand .together resolutely and hold on to some form of control while the foundation of peace, stability and orderly development is being worked out. I trust that the very heroism and suffering of the war will produce a determination to grapple with evils and remove them. No person or organisation or State can produce a complete solution. What is needed is to get our objective clear and accept certain fundamental principles, such as those expressed in the Atlantic Charter. It really means the end of exploitation as we knew it in the nineteenth century. Our main objective must be co-operation, to get rid of misery and insecurity and to give universal education and universal knowledge --to tear from our history books things that prejudice people against one another and teach the idea that all shave a contribution to make to human ■progress.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1942, Page 4
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