The Nome nugget., 1947-09-15
Had Enough, Britain?
(NeW York NeWS)

THE BRITISH Labor Government planners, who have been fddling with something called naturalization or semiSociasm for the past two years had to take bit of time out the other day. The interval necessary because Prime Minister Clement Attlee had to explain to the British House of Commons that something bad had happened to England's economy
 Britains chief planner confessed to Commons that something had gone wrong with his plans charts and sociastic blueprnts Anyway, to be blunt about it. the country had gone broke.
 There were few bitter comments from the political opposition. Mr. Oliver Stanley (Conservatve) took a dim view of Mr. Attlee's "one alibi-rising world prices; and added that he didn't think most Britons would "calmly settle down to be permanent pensioners of the United States Old Winston Churchill had snort ed days before that England was in grave trouble because its socialstic government had frttered away our $3, ,375 900 900 loan
 But the most revealing words came from Attee and his fellow planners they broke the to the Brit sh people about what the Laborites want them to do to get themselves out of the mess
 Our British friends says their Socialist government, going to have to pull all belts tight they in wartime, maybe tighter They will have to work harder and eat less Britain completely broke and with handouts getting scarcer reducing it's purchases of foreign groceries by $48,O0O0O0 per month British farmers being asked to grow more, but nobody poets them to take up this kitchen department slack
 There will be less gasoline. BrtOnS have been ration ed to 300 miles per month"; it will be- 200 miles from now on for private cars, slightly for trucks
 There will also be fewer new homes because the so- cia planners spent all their money and forgot to import enough lumber for housing
 Cotton imports to be slashed too, meaning fewer shirts for the British and fewer dresses for their wives Shelves of English stores will become and more bare The government planners have decided that all but essential manufacturing must stop be severely restricted.
 The most revealing tipoff on just what miseries have to Britain, after two years of statepannng, is what has happened to British labor Instead of shorter hours and bigger pay, promised solemnly in the La Dor governments campaign British workers getting socked with longer hours and frozen pay scales.
 Not only that, the planners still trying to plan their way of their crisis, have announced direction of labor" program It's not quite conscripton, they say.
 But if you lose your ob or you're not doing essen tial work" the planners will assign you your poyment, in some essential industry.
 These rigid restrictions will be imposed all British industries with the exception of and coal mining, building construction and farming These trades were freed from wartime controls over jobs.
 So that is the forced labor, controlled industry pro- gram, approved by 318-170 vote in Commons, with which the British planners propose to repair the country they have already wrecked in record time
 The bewildered British and we American taxpayers, too, would like to this any other plan pull Eng land off the dole But chances look slim So far the only industry the British dreamers have succeeded in nation azing is coal. The natonazed mines instead of in-