SOCIAL CREDIT PLAN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 16, 13 February 1942, Page 5

SOCIAL CREDIT PLAN

ANNUAL DOMINION CONFERENCE. PROPOSALS ADOPTED •

The annual conference of the New Zealand Social Credit movement atJ Paraparaumii last week was attended by delegates from all over tha Dominion and decided to fcarry on with a nation-wide organising Campaign to build up support for the movement's proposals. These proposals are for the jJurposesf of warfinance, post Avar reconstruction, and lo meet the economic emergency conditions arising out of war-time difficulties. The conference was prersided over by Mr R. O. C'. Marks, M. A.. D. C. M., who was re-eleeterf national president for the coming V r ear. Mr John Hogan, the' Australian! lecturer and economist, was appointed national organiser.

Among the principal resolutions carried by the conference were the following: "This conference affirms its unswerving loyalty to our beloved King and Queen through the stress and strain of the present period of tribulation."

Debt Free Finance: "To ally apprehension and anxiety as to the future financial burdens to> be borne by the people, of New Zealand and to implement a full war effort, it is imperative that all national financial arrangements be on a debt-free basis.'"

Federal Union: "This conference views with alarm the spread of Federal Union and similar propaganda for the limitation and suppression of the sovereign rights and financial independance of the people of New Zealand. We affirm that the most liarmonious relations between tb& nations will be possible only through the attainment of internal freedom and security for. the individual, and. that we owe it to our fighting for-* ces to oppose any proposal to re-

[luce our sovereign powers."

New Political Organisation; "That ds the best way to provide the mar ehinery to make the growing demand for Social Credit results politically effective, a separate politi-. oal organisation be set up apart from the Social Credit movement, provided that all candidates and members of Parliament be held responsible to their own electors."

Steps were taken for the establishment of a new political organisation on these lines, to he known as the Real Democracy Movement.