APPEAL TO BIG BUSINESS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1931, Page 5

APPEAL TO BIG BUSINESS.

“We are not using our brains upon our basic industries, fitting production to consumption, accommodating what we make to what we can buy back and so preventing this wild overproduction, underconsumption spasmodic depression. and inevitable unemployment. Why cannot we use our brains for cooperative planning and social control? If somebody wishes to call that socialism. let them call it socialism! Pretty nearly every decent and co-operative tiling we ever have done has been called by somebody socialism. They called municipal waterworks socialism. They called municipal electric Halit plants socialism. They called municipal markets socialism. There never has been a ease yet when we found that wo could no longer do thing well apart and tried then to do them together that, somebody did not call i l socialism. Do not lie tooled by a word. We face a fact. We cannot go on building factories able to turn out 000,000.000 pairs of something when we need only 300.000,000 pairs. Th.it is the fact. Why cannot we U' s e our brains for co-operation planning ? Dr H. Emerson Fosdick. Rivemlale Church. New York, in an address to bis millionaire congregation.