Dear Sir,

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 51, 18 November 1946, Page 4

Dear Sir,

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WHAT WILL BE LEFT US?

Sir, —Being one of those v/ith a desire to look into the above from two points of view, I would like after giving the workers side published in your Beacon on October 30, 1946, to look at this question from other peoples viewpoint, seeing much is being made of the word “Socialism.”

Before quoting from a news item, two points must be kept in mind, they are as follows: (1) The news item is dated eight weeks after war was declared on September 3, 1939. (2) That Britain did not have a Labour Government at that time. The news item is from London dated October 29, and published in the New Zealand press on October 31, 1939. It appears under the following headlines:— London Outcry Business Interference Hindrance To Trade “Pale Pink Socialism” London, Oct. 29.

I now quote: “The outcry against bureaucracy is becoming formidable. It originated in the city, and business centres in the provinces have now taken it up, while the popular press is daily publishing articles about Government inefficiency and red tape. There is a discontent about the working of Sir John Simon’s excess profit taxation, as the mass of evidence accumulates that it is retarding recovery and penalising enterprise. This partly explains the failure of equity shares to stage really substantial rises. Investors are afraid that Government interference in business and the regulation of prices will hinder efficient management, while taxation may rob the- shareholders not merely of the jam, but of bread and butter dividends.”

What are the points we can learn from the above? Money powers will use any party to act as an agent on their behalf to launch the bogey of Socialism, that’s why we are getting it morning, noon and night at the present time. Money power in control of the main daily press of any country will, and does persist in quoting “Socialism” to put fear in the minds of the workers. They know—divided we fall. Those are the points to remember on the 27th day of November, 1946. Yours etc., HARRY CARR.

P.S. I notice Onlooker objects to manpower direction because he calls it Socialistic power. Have not his own party a full employment plan? How do they intend to carry it out for the benefit of the State? Are they going to pay £4 per week to man and wife from the Social Security funds rather than find employment out of one’s own district by direction. Did not one of his party say a few days ago over the air, “That those that could work must work,” who will decide that point, I will recall being told during the last slump that I did not require work, as one unemployed. I would now like to quote extracts from a resolution passed unanimously by the delegate of the Christian Social Union at an annual conference held in Northampton on November 26, 1907. Here it is:—“The Unemployed.” “That, in the opinion of this council the grave problem of unemployment can only be dealt with by the fundamental reorganisation of industrial conditions, but that meanwhile the following are “the development of a national system of Labour Exchanges to organise the supply of labour on a basis of standard rates and conditions.” The Christian Social Union had for its officers at that time: President, Bishop of Birmingham; Vicepresidents, Bishop of Southwark, Bishop of Liverpool. One of its objects was": “To study in common how to apply the moral truths and principles of Christianity to social and economic difficulties of the present time.” 1907. ; If that is the road to Socialism, what’s wrong with it?

SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM AND FREEDOM

Sir, —Only by vigilance can we control the creeping paralysis of Socialism, Communism and the International hierarchy of New York. Professor F. A. Bland of the Sydney

University, has pointed out, that if the desired powers are transferred to a central Government (Canberra) under a referendum, and taken in conjunction with the uniform tax agreement of 1946, will render State Government almost completely “unnecessary.” And they (the States) would be merely a branch (vide our Local Bodies Amendment Act) office for the Federal controllers, who in their turn would be increasinglycompelled to take their orders direct from the world controllers operating via such agencies as 'the Combined Food Board, and 'the United Nations Organisations. The king pin being the world bank, the activities of which are above and beyond all National law, the world (slave) State will be on its way. The transference of powers to Canberra, and the acceptance of the Bretton Woods ‘agreement’ would just about see us there. A significant fact was the acceptance conditions of the American loan to Great Britain and the acceptance of Bretton Woods ‘agreement.’ Another was the compulsory limitation of British films to 2 per cent, of the total, shown in Britain. Hollywood was to be assured of its part in mass-con-ditioning a bewildered and stupified. public ready for grading, for their allotted tasks by the ‘world controllers.’ This picture was accurately painted some years ago by Aldous Huxley. He called it the “brave new world.” If you do not believe in this “brave new world,’ then use your vote for Freedom. These are the things you must vote against. (1) The taking of money out of the pay envelope without a warrant from the court; (2) raising the cost of comodities by indirect taxation; (3) and destroying Local Government to create a dictatorship in Government from Wellington. Ask your future (prospective) member to remove these anomalies before he “is elected ...” Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.