EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3921, 21 March 1929, Page 3

EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

WHAT MR. ARCHER WjOULD LIKE. iChristehurch, March 19. The absolute destruction of private capitalism was urged by the Mayor, the Rev. J. K. Archer, tMs t’norning as .the only true refinedj for the economic troubles that exist in the world to-day. Mr. Archer, ,who dealt with the subject when extending a civic welcome to the delegates, to the conference of the Related Printing Traders’ Association of Workers, said that the spirit of brotherhood should apply to houses, land, and machinery, and everything associated with the production and distribution of wealth. What he meant ,\vas that everything ibe held in common and operated in co|nimon for the benefit of the community. “We cannot get rid of capital. •Capital is one of the essential tilings of life. It is not money, as is commonly supposed, blit the machinery of life.” The Mayor added: “W|e do not want to get rid of the capitalists. What we want to do is to multiply the capitalists fifty-fold, so that every iman who .works is a capitalist.”

Mr. Archer said that the remedy for the present conditions was not shorter hours. “There is absolutely no solution apart from the absolute destruction of private capitalism,” he stated. “The root evil of the world is priv'ate capitalist, private enterprise, and private competition.”