"While on the basis of the present programme it seems improbable that widespread interference with the normal channels of trade is required," the Review says, in certain directions a partial mobilization of productive capacity, as the counter-part of the partial mobilization of manpower, will be unavoidable, for the serious bottleneck problem, which is the factor most likely to delay the prompt satisfaction of our needs in equipment and materials, can be solved only by the concentration of all resources on Government work and the diversion of such other facilities as can be easily-adapted. There may, even then, remain the need to secure still larger production by "the relaxation of limits to working hours, In this c ection the ce-operatic of the Trade Unions may be reckoned upon, since they will presumably prefer this method ta dilution (the addition to the labour resources of the trades in question of relatively unskilled workers).
One of the lessons of the Great War was that control—and with it some relinquishment of normal privileges and freedom of enterprise—is an essential part of national effort to build adequate defence resources, It clearly desirable for the necessary measures to be introduced from the ouster, rather than being hastily improvised when more normal methods have broken down. This implies, too, long-range planning in advance of actual needs, if regulation is not to be purely arbitrary and unnecessarily extensive. Control is not easy to put into effect, and it will require the close and full ce-operation of the Government. industrialists and Trade Union officials, But if this
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