"PEOPLE'S PEACE"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 123, 27 May 1942, Page 7

"PEOPLE'S PEACE"

LABOUR OBJECTIVE

Workers Demand Share In War Industry Control

United Press Association.—Copyright Rec. 2 p.m, LONDON, May 26 Pa?tv4 a e nS mpt l° n of the Party s annual conference the execn there"™* V 63o '" 110 " war n ,° return after the war to an unplanned competitive a P asserting that Oovernnatlirtlme control for mobilising in peacL tfme. rCeS mUSt be Continued

satinn added that socialisation of the basic industries and 1C f S and the Panning of production for community consumption r?,,^ 8 on ,i y lastin & foundation for order 3 Prosperous economic

timp°^i S °T r ? arold Laski said « was • ' m ® the Labour party left nobodv about the principles for h Jl ey t Wer !, fi S and added: We seek to end a system in which anri are , the sla yes of the few and which makes ordinary men and women not ends in themselves but means to the ends of others We seek that after this war there shall be no return to the old world but quite precisely to build a new world ave one with the mad, comL.tln economic system which spells poverty for ali peoples and war as the outcome of that poverty."

Mr. Churchill's Attitude? Professor Laski added that Mr Churchill had agreed that this was a people s war, and said: "We mean him'th JT We , Want a P led § e f rom ti? People s peace will result from the people s war. Mr. Churchill !? 0 £.5, + evaded that assurance. He has talked of victory in terms of tne old world that is dying, not of the new world that is struggling to hv th°J n " A ? r - Churchill must stand by the people. Britain is not only in the war against vested interests fntwoc't t, m a ar a eainst vested interests at home. The resolution was adopted and the conference also carried a resolution that in order to , achieve a maximum output the whole economy of war production should be put on a socialised basis, with the workers sharing in the control. conference overwhelmingly rejected an amendment that the 1 .abour members of the Government inn ln S r f l i, Cted V? P ress for the adoption of this policy even to the point of the party resuming its freedom of action in Parliament and in the country. , A "° ther resolution was adopted ny the conference urging the coordination of all transport under national ownership.