POWERFUL INFLUENCE
LABOUR FEDERATION PRESIDENT
MR. J. HARVEST'S STATE-
WENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, September 30.
The rights of private enterprise were. defended by Mr. J. Hargest, National candidate for Awarua, iri an address. Mr. Hargest charged the Labour Government with planning the socialisation of all industry, and claimed that the socialisation of production, one of the planks in the Labour platform, meant State ownership of all land.
The most powerful man in New Zealand today was the president of th« Federation of Labour, Mr. A. McLagan, Mr. Hargest said. He, with Mr. Roberts, controlled the Labour movement in this country. Mr. McLagan was njore powerful than Mr. Savage.
Their aim was socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
A great many people today thought the Labour Party was the only party with the interests of the workers at heart, but the National Party stood for the interests of the working class just as wholeheartedly. It did not represent party, and that was the difference between the two parties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 21
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