UNITY PLATFORM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2682, 31 January 1916, Page 2

UNITY PLATFORM

Sy Telegraph.—Press Assool&Uon. Mastar'isn, January 30. At the Unfey Platform meeting held here on Saturday Messrs. William Igguliden, a carrier, and Roderick M'B.ae, Shearers' Union, spoke in support, instancing how France had closed her disputing ranks. Mr. EL. C. Robinson said he was satisfied with the reception ho had met with at tlie towns ho had visited, and regretted that lie was compelled to curtail visiting other places. The Unity Platform called for "organisation of capital and man-power." Somo people wrongly considered that organisation of capital meant confiscation of capital. Capital was only the means of directing labour. Organisation meant an insistence that labour should bo wisely directed j that the waste of useless trades, false profits, and exploiters' profits should be cut out. Confiscation, how. ever, meant taking the direction out of proved hands, and putting unskilled steersmen at the wheel by means of an internal revolution. This would spell disunion, disaster, and defeat. The best men in the ranks of capital could and should be trusted to act as patriots to-day. He did not himself presume to dictate any method of organisation. Ho had no intention of adding to the Hood of public criticism of tho National Government. Any criticism or. suggestion that, as a result of information collected, ho might offer would be offered privately and in a spirit of confidence. He 'felt it essential that the people should be encouraged to trust tho Government, and the Government encouraged to trust the people.