AN INEFFECTIVE PRINCIPLE?
"The old slogan 'Back to the land' is not going to solve our present problems m New Zealand," said Mr. Johnston at Blackbridge. Sir Joseph Ward had adopted the principle of "back to the land," a principle that did not apply to iNew Zealand, but to over-in-T^f? whßed» ? ountries m™ England. With New Zealand, which was not self I supporting, movement must be alons the lines of industrial progress. One bar to that progress was the attitude of Labour which refused to co-operate Tntn t-apita?. It was necessary for the prosperity of the country that Labour and Capita] should combine, and this combination it was the policy of the Eeform Party to achieve. Mr. Johnston said the prosperity of Canada came from the combination of the two forces, and ho gave: Australia as an example of what happened when Labour and Capital did not combine
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 12
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148AN INEFFECTIVE PRINCIPLE? Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 12
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