he
hedges on that, but he makes it perfectly clear that his ultimate aim
is a white South Africa side by side with a black South Africa. A white
South Africa in which, according to the Minister of Labor, the white
woman will scrub her own floors and the farmer will not, as at present,
confine himself to riding in his car to the co-operative society to
collect his check whilst coloreds and Natives sit on the tractor and
plough and plant and reap, and side by side with that a black South
Africa self-sufficient in its own territories. On the one hand industry
and agriculture is being worried and harassed with continual lectures
by the Minister of Native Affairs on the necessity of employing the
minimum amount of non-European labor, because gradually, according to
his policy, it will disappear. On the other hand there is not the
slightest indication on the financial side that the Government has even
begun to think about the implications of it all and of the necessity of
making the Native reserves capable of supporting this Native population
which must ultimately, under the direction of the Minister of Native
Affairs and the Minister of Labor, make its home there. . . . Let the
honorable Minister, and let everybody in this House, remember that no
manpower means no capital, no development, and no revenue. . . . Yet
the Minister of the Interior goes to Worcester, and if he is correctly
reported, he begged the industrialists whom he addressed there to use
the minimum possible of Native labor. . . . These gentlemen are not
talking about a drop in the ocean, but they are talking about 80 per
cent of the total amount of labor to be employed in our economy."
It was all very reasonable, well arranged and nicely said, but there was no fire in it: it was cool and gentlemanly and that
