The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1946 Dear Sir,

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 57, 2 December 1946, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1946

Dear Sir,

Letters to the Editor must be clearly written on one side of the paper only and where a nom-cle-plume is used the name of the writer must be included for reference purposes. The Editor reserves the right to abridge, amend or withhold any letter or letters.

FEDERATED FARMERS

Sir, —I am afraid,there are’people who want domination, not Federation! It is not necessary < for me to cover again the controversy between the political party sections and of farmers over the amalgamation of the Farmers’ Union and Federated Farmers. Amalgamation is not the word for federation, it should be cooperation. , Therefore if you want true co-operation, it should be unity of purpose, not a domination from headquarters and centralised control. Therefore those who have served the Auckland Provincial (Farmers’ Union) from their sub-province should remember that if it had not beeh for the Auckland Province there would have been no representation of the small farmer today. To quote from the Tauranga pamphlet: If the farmers of New Zealand are to speak with one voice, it must be through a complete organised Federation under a single incorporation. Now I hope all Farmers’ Union, Federated Farmers, ’ will agree that the new set-up represents a Farmers Parliament, for farming interests. If provincial delegations are to be split up then you can lay yourself open to dictatorship by centralised control. From the point of view of a working committee of delegates going forward to the Federal Council, I say to your sub-province ‘do not let your province be split up, but stick to those' who have fought for the rights of the farmer for so many years.’ The final paragraph on the Tauranga leaflet says: ‘For years we have been tied to Auckland . . . futile years . . . end it now—l .think we have felt the weight of party politics on the farmer, too long, so end it. Now! And stick to your subprovince; you want more true cooperation today than ever before so don’t weaken/ your province by forming another.

Yours etc., SUB-PROVINCE

LEST WE FORGET

Sir, —Karl Marx (Mordecai) in his message to the First Internationa] in 1870, observed: “The English are not capable of making a Socialist revolution, therefore foreigners must make it for them.” If this dea be accepted as openly representing reality, then the foreigners mentioned by Marx, and their employees in various acquired occupations in this country, take on a more sinster aspect. Whatever the ultimate result'may be, it is a statement of fact that social disturbance, economic and industrial distress in Great Britain and the Eiominions, in most cases can be traced to alien influences. Socalism is, a highly organised business, and its various activities, political and economic, provide lucrative careers, not least to the private owners of businesses engaged in its propaganda. As it is completely parasitic, living off a

production process to which it contributes nothing, it must be regarded as a disease of the system, to be cured by. indirect methods. The effect of this parisitism has been to create in bur main cities, and to a lesser degree in the smaller ones, what can be described as alien culture, linked with mechahical industry by the Trades Union official. It should be realised that the centralised Social State with its vested interests in Bureaucratic Administration is not a “peoples” Government. Professor Brutzkus, Chairman of Agricultural Economics at St. Petersburg (1907 to 1922) states: “It should not be forgotten that the communist State with all its resources at its free disposal and resting on an absolute dictatorship, is the most powerful in the world; while the subjects of such a State are the most impotent (servile) of all peoples. Professor Brutzkus, Who had every opportunity to observe the transition from Czarist to Communist Russia, and being highly critical of the former, concludes: Russian experience bears out in 'the clearest manner our basic conclusion—namely, that the prinicple of Socialism is not creative; that it leads the economic life not to fruition, but to ruin. It is possible to. indicate just where, and by what steps the present situation has been reached and by so doing to place the nature of the policy beyond dispute. A clue can be found in the nature, transformation and mechanism of taxation. Taxation has become a political weapon, in the main aimed at agriculture but the general intention is to make finance the supreme Government. Finally I would ask “why deprive the worker of his purchasing power (pay .as you go) forcing the employer to collect the tax from the workers pay envelope; stoppage is no payment! . . . and a trayersty of constitutional law.” "Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.