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Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1928, Page 2

electors. Put. that manifesto is a craftily-prepared document which is deliberately intended to give the public an erroneous impression concerning tin l true policy ol tlio Labour Part\. The true policy embodies, as its ultimate aim. not only the socialisation of the means of production Hut the socialisation also of the means ol distribution and exchange. AA hy stop. Mi’ Neilson asks, at the common ownership of railways, post and telegraph systems, and other public- services? Why. indeed, when there are industrial businesses and banking, insurance, and shipping services, now being conducted in the interests of the shareholders. u]x)ii which the State may pounce? And if the plan is that these businesses and services shall simply be seized and that the proprietors and tin 1 shareholders shall be plundered, the financial difficulties relating to the socialisation of the means of production. distribution, and exo.hango will not be matter of concern to the Labour Party. Tf. on the other hand, the scheme is that the country shall buy out tlie services winch it is proposed that the State shall take over, it is to bo observed that neither Air Holland nor anyone else has yet condescended tn say how the funds that will be necessary are to he procured.