PLEA FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 61, 30 March 1937, Page 4

PLEA FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE

'.'The success of Labour, industrial and political, will depend largely on the degree of industrial peace and goodwill that exists among the masses of the people Who are employed from time to time in the industries and services of the country," wrote the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage^ in a message of goodwill to the dele gates fc-> the 26th annual conference cf the New Zealand Labour Party which opened in Wellington on Saturday. He urged the conference to exercise great cave before making decisions in ordet to avoid providing new shot and shell l'ox; use by the Government 's political opponents. "Since the conference last met," wrote Mr Savage, "the most memorable sessiOn of Parliament in the history of New Zealand has been held,. and legislation passed Which will materially assist in establiehing a new order in which the people of the Dominion will come into theif uatural heritage. While much still remains to be done befclre »:x.r goal is reached, the fundamental fcature of fche legjislation already passed has placed great powers as well as tremendous responsibilities in the handn of the GovernmeDt." The letter said that when Parliament as'sembled this year, probably in August, members would be asked to pass some of the most humanitarlan legislation — including national health service and universal tsuperannuation— that had ever been submitted to legislators in any part of the World, and the House would continue to sit until it was on the Statute Book,