“BREAK AND SHATTER."

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2431, 20 May 1922, Page 2

“BREAK AND SHATTER."

LABOUR OBJECTIVE PROPOSAL,

Judging from a remit to be submitted to the annual conference of the Labour Party, to be held at Auckland in July, the internal organisntion of the party does not meet with the approval of all branches. The remit from the Brooklyn branch is as follows: “That Conference this year gives all available time to the work of improving the party’s interim 1 organisation even if thiii necessitates refraining from pulling the platform to pieces this year." The Wellington Printers’ Union proposes (hat the constitution and platform of the party shall be amend-d only at the annual conference held during the year of the General Election for members of Parliament.

A remit of a very extreme type dealing with the objective of the Labour Party is t/o be submitted to the conference by the Canterbury Trades arid Labour Council, The council suggests that after the words “the socialisation of the means of production, distribution an'd exchange,” shall be added the following: (1) That the New Zealand Labour Party cannot simply seize the available machinery of the State and set it going for the objective and platform. (2) The New Zealand Labour Party must break up, shatter the available ready machinery of State and not confine itself to merely taking possession of it.

(3) Nni ilit* abolition of representative institutions and elective principles, but the conversion of (lie representative institutions from mere talking shops into working bodies.

(4) Not a Parliamentary, but a working corporation, legislative and executivfe at. one and the same time. Instead of deciding once in three years which member of the ruling class is to represent and repress the people in Parliament, universal suffrage to serve the people organised in Workers’ Councils (being at all times subject to recall) as a means of securing the necessary workfers, controllers, clerks, and so forth for its business in the same way as individuafsuffrnge serves any employer in his business.