THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 1, 1939.
INDUSTRY'S CONTRIBUTION TO WAR EFFORT
London, To-day. MR. ERNEST BROWN, Minister of Labour, in a broadcast talk last night on the contribution of industry to the war effort, said:
As a great industrial country, we had already great resources of skill and plant, and to these great additions had been made and were being made, so that there will be no doubt that whatever the effort required, this country will be able to meet all the demands which will be made upon it..
"This is a formidable task, but we have entered upon it with an asset which our opponent does not possess, the asset of being a free people with free institutions.
"It is a remarkable fact that we were able to enter upon the war with- out imposing any new form of legis- lative control upon the regulation of wages and working conditions.
The Minister continued with a survey of the way the various
in- dustries had met and were meeting the particular difficulties occasioned by war.
KEY OCCUPATIONS
"A list of key occupations has been compiled in order that men in such occupations shall not be taken from in- dustry unless required in the forces During the past twenty years we for the work in which they are skill- have been steady setting up in each ed. This will assure, as far as pos- industry, joint machinery through |sible, that industry is kept fully which the representauves of employ-manned to produce munitions and ers and the work-people manage the maintain the life of the nation and affairs of their inaustries and settle also that when the war is over in- their own conditions.
dustry generally will have a basis for reconstruction and expansion,"
ADVISORY COUNCIL
"As I speak, this joint machinery is operating to adapt those conditions to war circumstances. In the gnt for freeaum we have the inesumawe gain of fighting with the aid of a free organisation of employers work-peuple carrying on their work in the
way they have themselves decided.
and
"The powerful Trade Union move- ment in Great Britain is convinced
Mr. Brown concluded with a special word of praise for the British Mer- chant seamen and fishermen in their most vital and hazardous work. British Wireless.
OFFICERS
that the war is against forces that PROMOTED
threaten those insutulions and that enuanger the uberty of work-people throughout the world.
"Iney believe that its object is to create circumstances in wiuch their feuows in Germany will be able re- gain freedom to live their own lives anu nave agam weir own Iree 01- ganisations.
"To-morrow afternoon there. will take place the nrst meeting of National Joint Auvisury Council to which the T.U.C. General Councu and the British Employers, Conieaera- tion have appointed representatives.
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LONDON, TO-DAY. THE SECRETARY FOR WAR, MR. LESLIE HORE-BELISHA, AN- NOUNCED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY THAT THERE WAS NO INTENTION the
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"These representatives will be touch with all industries and when I say that directly represented, on one side or the owner, are agriculture, couton, wool, snipping, engineering and retail distripuuon, it will be seen how great is the knowledge which is placed at the disposal of the Gov- ernment.
"The purpose of the Council is to advise the Government on questions in which employers and workers have a common interest."
The Minister of Labour stated that skilled Trade Unions had voluntarily agreed to allow less skilled workers to work by their side on work So far reserved for skilled men and that a register of such cases would be kept so that when peace conditions return, the position of the skilled men will not be prejudiced.”
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These varied, he said. For ex- ample, in the case of motor-drivers, eight weeks might be considered an adequate training period.
Most of the men, Mr. Hore-Belisha stated, wanted to get to France quickly as possible.
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Mr. Hore-Belisha the number of men plcked from the ranks to receive training as officers numbered about 7,000. Two thousand had been promoted from the ranks since the Military Training Act was passed.-Reuter.
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