WARTIME SACRIFICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 115, 19 May 1942, Page 5

WARTIME SACRIFICE

NEEDED IN AMERICA New York, May 16. In spite of the necessity for wartime sacrifices, A»nericans would have an adequate supply of food and other essentials for the duration of the war, 1 provided these supplies were equitably distributed, said the Price Administrator, Mr. Leon J. Henderson, ■ to-day. . “America has won for the common man the highest standard of living in history, which is a source of strength . in the present struggle,” he said. “We can afford a war economy which Germany and Japan cannot.’ Mr. Henderson added: “One of the major American freedoms has been the freedom to bargain collectively for higher wages, but to-day collective bargaining comes into head-on collision with the stabilisation of income. 1 earnestly ask for tolerance and forbearance while these two great necessities are satisfactorily adjusted.” The chairman of the War Labour , Board, Mr. Davis, appealed to laboui 2 to forego wage demands that were in--1 consistent with the policy of stabilised I wages enunciated by President Rooser veil "We are not fighting the war for ! privileges and we cannot win th-* wai r without self-restraint,” said Mr. Davis. _ "Both labour and management will s have to show very great self-restraint on the wage front.” —