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"Nearly Killed N.Z." LABOUR M.P.'s COMMENT
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INVERCARGILL, Last Night. Replying to criticism of the Labour Government at a meeting at Otautau Mr. W. M. C. Denham, member for Invercargill, stated that these critics said "private enterprise will be destroyed." The National Party when it was in office gave free play to private enterprise and competition, he said. What was the result? Not only did private enterprise almost desfcroy itself but it came perilousrly close to destroying the people with it. Practically every industry cut prices to such an extent that neither employee nor employer could live. The ruthless slaughter of living standards was the order of the day, small factories sprang up in back yards like mushrooms and a man, his wife and * children worked unlimited liours like slaves. That sort of thing occurred in every industry in New Zealand resulting in terrible poverty and high unexnploy- ' ment figures. Yet that was the precious "individual freedom" the National Party was crying out for. "The majority of our people are happier and more prosperous and conifortable under the Labour Government than they ever were under the rule o± the National Party,'' said Mr. Denham.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 2 July 1937, Page 9
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