WORKLESS POSITION

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18394, 30 July 1931, Page 2

WORKLESS POSITION

RAILWAY SERVANTS’ VIEW. "BLIND" PRODUCTION. "We can either continue the planless production and speculative marketings with the inevitable slumps and booms, bankruptcies and liquidations, unemployment and hardship, or we can plan to produce the requirements of our customers after negotiation and agreement,” states a survey of the unemployment position issued by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The statement adds that the Dominion has not exploited the markets offering. Attention is drawn to the granting of 1233 passages to assisted immigrants last year, and it is stated that 289 of the newcomers were males over 17 years of age. The statement oontinues: “There would be some justification for cutting and scraping if the goods or resources were not here —but they are here. No economist or politician has ever suggested that the trouble is lack of natural resources. They all agree that it Is the failure to find a rational method of distribution, and the saving and cutting which accentuates ■the problem. What man with knowledge or vision will husband his resources while his wife and children are starving? Yet that.is what we are doing nationally.”