Dear Sir,

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 70, 8 January 1947, Page 4

Dear Sir,

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THE SOCIALIST PLOT

Sir, —Here is another instance of the Socialist cum-Communist-cum Internationalist plot (sabotage of food through the means of production). From the Herald, October 18 we get the following: “More evidence of sabotage of food production.” Why is it that farmers cannot obtain supplies of barbed wire” The question was raised in the Legislative Assembly when Mr T. Harvey (C. P. Gippsland) stated that after waiting several years for wire for his son’s farm, he approached a dealer who told him that he' was embarassed with stocks. He added: They, are in the shed, in the store, and indeed everywhere; but I can do nothing with the wire, because I have not been told whether I can sell, and what I must charge. Mr Harvey declared this is the way the dairying industry was being hampered by controls. The wire was availabler-btft could not be sold. This paper continues: “A well known milking herd is being dispersed and the dairy plant closed down because of labour problems.” One of the biggest monopolies in this country is this bureaucratic Government. It has no labour problems, simply because it offers positions which entail little real work, no responsibility, and the opportunity for thousands of people to mind other people’s business instead of minding their own. There is an ever increasing number of people on non-pro-ductive work. This fact, together with the strikes and restrictions of the bureaucracy, should ensure that never again will we have “poverty amidst plenty,” but perpetual shortages rationed by the bureaucrats. There is a strong affinity between our Socialistic Governments! . . . Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.