WRITING ON THE WALL

Chronicle (Levin), 9 May 1946, Page 4

WRITING ON THE WALL

WORKERS CAN DEFEAT THfi GOVERNMENT N AUCKLAND May 8. Statemeiits of the urgent need for more production and a warning that if workers §lacked or if the distrihutive and transport services failed to run smoothly, the position of the Government might f "be jeopardised, markea various addresses given to meetings oi workers in Auckland factories "by the Prime Minister, Hon. P. Fraser today. On every occasion the Prime Minister said that the Lahour Government could . be heaten in the industrial as well as the poiitical fi'eld, and he urged wmrkers to increase production and to supporr the Government at the eoming gdnerai election. During the day the Prime Minister addres'sed gatherings of workers at six factories as well as attendirlg a meeting of waterside workers. Ih every case iife was given a most attontive hearing 1 punctuated "by applause, votes of conlidence in himself as leader of the Lahour Party and in the Governmenc. Pledges to support the Government ar the election weie passed without dissent wherever they were put to meetings. In addition to fepresentatives of tne Auckland Lahour Representation Committee, the Prime Minister was accompanied hy his Parliainentary UnderSecretary (Mr. A. G. Osborne), Mr. P. Hackett M.P. and Mr. P. Carr M.P. • The largest meeting addressed was one of ahput 1500 men and- women at Westfield Freezing Works, while there was also a large gathering at the New Zealand Glass Manufacturing Company Ltd. "It is the goods and services which you produce, on which is hased the prosperity of New Zealand," said Mr. Fraser. "Unless goods are producea without interriiption you can have all the money beyond dreams of avarice and yet the country will he poor. TJnder our legislation we can give you the hest possible conditions and highest wages and social security can he maintained but unless goods are produced the whoie structure will crumhle; "If. there are stoppages oif worx, either hig or trivial, that ought not to take place, in a- country where you have a sympathetic Government, all our schemes will fail. We will he pointed to as a country which had a Lahour Government for ten years and then faued. We canhot achieve success unless we produce continuously and transport and distribute goods effieiently. We can he defeated hy ourselves if we ao not work honestly and unremittingiy under decent v/ages ffnd conditions. We must not have a Lahour regim*, which is your party, defeated hy inefficiency m production and ' unnecessary troubles. ' The Govermnent can pass laws but unless the people work in cooperation ana produce goods for the public to huy, that.same Government is helpless. * as . production increases so those who do the work will get a higger share. That is the policy of the Government. "Another way in which Lahour can be defeated is in the poiitical field," said Mr. Fraser in appealing for the greatest efforts- from Lahour supporters lip to the uight of the election." Our opponents are organising as never before and you have got to take a stand against these efforts. . Money is pouring into . the coffers of the National Party and they are not doing thisfiust for fun. Just as the workers received a dividend from the Lahour Party so will National Party supporters claim their dividend if a new government with different ideas, were to he elected. Do not forget that the had conditions of the last government are just around the fcorner and there is a danger that they would return, ' '