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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1933, Page 4

"No other country in the world passes so many laws and pays so little attention to them a.s the United States,” said Mr C. M, Ma-dsden, a delegate to the British Trades Union Congress. "If all the violators of the National Recovery Act are put into gaol I think that at least the workers in the building trades will be busy for a long time building enough gaols to hold them. What ever the outcome of the experiment may be, and I am not unduly optimistic about it, it offers an opportunity to Labour such as wc have never had before.” The field was now open for organisations of the workers, and tbis the trade unions must do. If. the world was to be saved for democracy all democratic forces mu pt join togot-hor. I< nbonr \\ fts po>ot-

ful, but not all-powerful. They had recently seen one great nation in Europe hurled back into conditions of barbarism. “The experiment that is being worked out in the United States to-day is fraught with danger to our liberty and democracy. The Industrial Recovery Act is expected to be in operation for two years. After that time, what? We will not go back to the old conditions. Things never become again what they were before. If we fail in our task of organising the mass of the workers into real organisations with a vision of what the future holds out to them and a will to fight for it, the great powers that are now in the hands of a man who has the cause of humanity at heart may easily pass into other bands and a dictatorship be established in the United States different perhaps from that in 'any other country, hut no less destructive to the cause of human freedom.”