PEOPLE’S VOICE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 10

PEOPLE’S VOICE

DEMOCRACY CALL INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES RESTRICTING RESTRICTION BUREAUCRATIC CONTROL (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A largely-attended meeting was held in the concert chamber of the Wellington Town Hall last night that expression might be given and possibly some lead to the doubt, apprehension and fear which, speakers said, were pervading the community concerning New Zealand's economic situation and the socialistic trend of legislation and its effect on the rank and file.

A representative committee of 70 employers and employees has held numerous meetings in recent weeks concerning the general trend of events. It was decided to convey their views to a wider section of the community with the result that last night’s meeting was organised.

Those present represented all sections of the community.

A statement given to the press said that the aims and ideas of the movement were given by the chairman as follows:

(1) To be the voice of the peopje rejecting bureaucratic government that infringes the freedom of the individual and" violates the principles of Christian and British democracy.

(2) To support any Government whose loyalty to party will be subordinated to loyalty and service of the people.

(3) To resist those forces that would make the individual subservient to the State.

The following resolution, moved by a member of the audience, received the enthusiastic endorsement of those present: “That this meeting, having heard from the chairman an outline of this movement of people, fully endorses its aims and ideals, pledges whole-hearted’ support and resolves to work unceasingly to obtain the desired results and a unified New Zealand.”