The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is in corporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1925. THE LABOR OBJECTIVE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1925, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is in corporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1925. THE LABOR OBJECTIVE

In the declaration of “principles” by the Political l.ahor Party, the objective is set out to be the “Sociali.sut ion el the .Means of Production. Distribution and Exchange." This,, shortly, is to acquire the land, distribute the produce by State ships and pay for it till from a State Dank .' The method proposed by the Party for this undertaking is ‘• 11 1 0 conquest of political potter, local and national, by constitutional means: the extension of the organisation of workers in industry, together with the co-operation of all who render social sen ice, to the end that society shall he controlled in the interests <d all the | eojde." That method sound.* line and large let us for a moim-iil examine it. The Labor Party, not feeling its politi al feel too (irmly at the

present adopts “i oust it lit ional mean*.'' We can imagine wlml the ‘‘means ' would lie it it had the power. W hen, through the l.ahor Unions, it takes that power for the time being in strikes, it holds up the community, noi by “constitutional means'’ lull by sheet force ol the powel the strikers wield. Were Labour in stieh cases disposed to act < oust it lit ioually. their grievances would go before the Arbitration Court, lint. no. I.almur in stieh instances knows nought hut an appeal to the lorce ol a 'trike which is uncoiistitu tioual. And the -trike when it is cn dured long enough has to lie broken by force or the threat of fyrec. In the maritime strike the farmers had to eotne in i min the romilry on liorsehack and ride down the pickets trying to prevent the loading of the farmers’ produce. Labor thought it had the upper hand for the lime being, and was not const it tit iona! then, .lust now polin' prole lion has to be provided foilin' manning ot the ship- to take the country's produce overseas. Mr Holland and his followers do not talk coitsi iltil ionalism to the strikers. or advise them to act for the public safely. On the contrary, they appear as •special pleaders, in a suit which may not lie determined here hut must he settled i misl.it titiona lly in England, where the seamen made their agreement. So niii' h lor this vaunted “constitutional means'' ~f action by Labour when it gels the chance to rule. M ill electors on Wednesday next, when entering the polling booth torn | flits “const it ul ional” viewpoint- over in their minds, ami then decide how they are going to east their vote with the national responsilility on their shoulders? Continuing on the method to secure the final objective of Labor, the manifesto talks of extending the organisation of workers, so that in the end society will he controlled in the interests of all the people. This rather lets the eat out of the hag. for it suggests at once the method of Hod Russia. Wo know what happened there when society was controlled for the interests of all the pcopde. Those who did not agree with the powers that he list their heads! They were executed. It was rigid control, but when some hundreds ot thousands of people j were so controlled, the balance thought it tt.s well to submit, and so wo have Soviet Russia as it i* to-day. Itt the extension ol organised Labour we can see the leaders of to-day becoming tin.’ despots of to-morrow, and the eon-

trul system is hut tin expression which indicates an iron rule politically, in "Inch from him who hath "ill he taken, ami to him who hath not will he given. In those halcyon days the industrialist will have the right to work.

and it no work then Iny maiuien nin e. lln money must come fron

some" here, and if not from the peoples s;m 111 :.',5, wliieli " ill he follow'd up. then the maintenance "ill he pair for in brand new State Bank notes The industrial conditions under fathom read as a story from the land of Utopia. Hut. we are in a land where produce "rows only "here the land i>

tilled: where wealth does not appear hy a mastic wave ol the hand or from the printing press. Wealth must fro produced, and production calls for work. By that means only can New Zealand save herself, and meantime New Zealander* should save their country from the headlong disaster into which the Labor Party would land the country ji helped into nlnee urn] poivci* next Wednesday.