SOCIALIZATION AND REGIMENTATION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 13, 11 October 1943, Page 4

SOCIALIZATION AND REGIMENTATION

Traders’ Representatives Quote Warning

With the gradual socialization of industry and commerce, and the life of the community as a whole being regimented under numerous regulations, which undermined the freedom of the individual, some attention could be given to a widely circulated recent address by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, says the United Kingdom Manufacturers’ and N.Z. Representatives Association in its latest publicity bulletin. The address referred to stated m part: “Today wo are fighting abroad for international democracy, but there is also a fight to be waged here at home for individual freedom, liberty and justice. It is an admitted fact that certain elements of the community are working with the definite and avowed object of the socialization and regimentation of all forms of activity. Steadily, insistently but insidiously this regimentation is taking place, -and I suggest that unless we realize just what is happening and. take most vigorous action to prevent its occurrence, we may some day awake to find not what the new order is, but that it is already here and we as units of a system are bound hand and foot, powerless even to oppose it.” Thei'e was no doubt whatever, stated the bulletin, that precisely similar conditions applied in New Zealand, and though full cognizance must be given to the terms of Ih e Atlantic Charter and all that it implied, British manufacturers and their representatives overseas would have to keep an ever watchful eye that by political subterfuge their rights and privileges were'not taken away.