POLICIES AND MOTIVES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1929, Page 10

POLICIES AND MOTIVES

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Ou reading a letter over the name of the New Zealand Welfare League I was somewhat interested as to what the real aims and objects of that league or association really are. No doubt Mr. Nash will be truly grateful for the trouble tha league lias gone to on his behalf. Of course, there- are many people among the workers in this country who are not as well up in polities as they might be, yet there must be many supporters of the Reform and United parties whose supporters are not familiar with their policies. At the present juncture it Eeema a favourable time for the New Zealand Welfare League to be impartial in their favours, and give us a similar resume o£ the policies of the two other parties. \\ bile they are on the job, it would be as well it the New Zealand Welfare .League would supply us with the real aim and object of their own existence. It is hardly possible for the "league to pose as a friend of the workers, yet, as they tritely remark, there are many workers who do not know that by voting for Mr. Nash they are in ignorance that they are unconsciously subscribing to the socialistic doctrine. That must be one of the objects of the league, to enlighten people before they go wrong. Evidently, the' people whom the league represents have learn their reasons, because there is no need to catechise them through the daily papers. No, Sir, this enlightened and philanthropic body has time and to' spare to instruct the workers in time of political or industrial stress.

When unemployment wag rife and the Eeform Government decided to call a halt, and temporarily stop assisted immi« gration, the league had to enter an em> phatic protest against stopping the flow; of prospective pupils. Yet perchance there is much. work- for the league ahead when, if ever, a steady stream of immigrants are once more arriving on these shores. They may, and in all possibility will be,of perverted intellect, and may show; Socialistic, nay, even Bolshevik, tendencies.

The outlook is indeed gloomy, but the New Zealand Welfare League has the big broad outlook, and will correct kindlj; but firmly any reprehensible leanings towards Socialism. Any member of tha league who ever had socialistic leanings knows now -Ac error of his ways. Then, again, take clause 2: That the official object of th-: party is "The socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange." I don't want to be tiresome. I am just in search of knowledge. Mr. Nash is, I understand, a business man, in quite a good way of business. This socialist junk hardly seems to coincide with his interests. Having got thia far, I do not really know whether I am more concerned about the motives actuating the New Zealand Welfare League, or the dark inner workings of the Labour: candidate for the Hutt.

Perhaps- Mr. Nash Js. following thaj example of some of the bright luminaries in the Old Country, who have forsaken class prejudice in what they call the cause of humanity. I would Teally prefer to believe this of him, sadly as it may; appear, than that he was in ignorance^ acting against his own interest. —I am,A COLONIAL. Ist December.