SOCIALISTS' AIM
Labour Minister Would ; .End Private Macbines "In this Industrial ' battle of ours it is-.tfnly the 'yo'ung and ; virilo man whom • the 'errtployer wants, " ' said ' the Hon. P. C. Webb,'*Adting-Mihister 'ot Labour, after mentioning the forth,coming universal supcrannuatioii scheme in the course of an address.tq the Dunedin Watorside Worlcers' TTnion. ' ' This is a f eature of the system of capitalism — a system which we have to abolish. We preached that message 30 years ago and we still hold to it. Outside of Labour 's policy there is no
-hope for the workei's, or.for a higher civilisation. . .. '■ "All our legislation," continued Mr ;Web.b, "must .h'ave as a basis greater economic ; security for the workers. It -is...wonderful to Isee a machino doing easily • wht * ,men -used to do laboriously with pieks and shovels, but - 1 . don 't whnt to seo . tha-t macliino privately-owned to that the workers can be. exploited.' I want to see it owned by the' community for the benefit * of , the community/' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 11
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