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CONTROL OVER PRICES

TRADES UNION PROPOSALS Rugby. Aug. 23. “Unless control over prices, production, distribution and consumption iii the transitional period after hostilities end is maintained at an -effectiveness at least equal to that maintained in the war, it will be impossible to ensure a speedy transfer of the nation’s resources from war to peace.” This is the view expressed in the report of the general council of the Trades Union Council to be presented to the 75th annual congress at Southport on September 6. The report adds that if the maintenance of substantial control in the post-war transitional period is necessary to a speedy, ordered return to prosperous peace-time activities, much remains to be done at the earliest possible moment in order to preptire and educate the public to an understanding and acceptance of that necessity and its probable implications. It is a matter which is now being taken up by the T.U.C. with the Government through the reconstruction joint advisory council. Meantime appropriate committees of the T.U.C. are giving attention to these and other detailed aspects of the transitional and long term reconstruction policy. The subject of demobilisation is also dealt with in the report. The general council thought that the formula “age plus length of service,” subject to military needs, should be extended to cover the quality as well as length of service. Moreover it would be necessary to take into account the demand of industry for the cariy release of men of special skill and ability. Just, as the call-up for armed service and civil defence had been ordered and regulated in relation to needs, so consideration ought to be given to the desirability and practicability of putting the machinery of the call-up into reverse. The general council” realises that, in the event of hostilities in the far East continuing after they end in Europe, the effects on strategy and tactics are bound to limit considerably the applications of the formula and will require the retention of men who, on strict application of the formula, would be entitled to priority of discharge. The matter is to be further considered by the joint consultative committee to the Minister of Labour. —8.0.W.

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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 201, 26 August 1943, Page 3

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CONTROL OVER PRICES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 201, 26 August 1943, Page 3

CONTROL OVER PRICES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 201, 26 August 1943, Page 3