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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 November 1931, Page 7

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SOCIALIST LABOUR AND ITS POLICY The "New Zealand Worker" (official organ of the Labour Party), in a recent article, made clear the Soc-ialist-Labour viewpoint. Asking it- j self the question, "How can the Gov•ernment make the best use of the resources at its " command?" it answers as follows: "By becoming the only employer, as it would of an army. A'bolish the use of money for all internal dealings. The best wages are food, clothing and shelter. Close j the banks as banks, and put the build- | ings to some useful purpose: e.g., | public dining rooms. Note: Nobody would need to go to a bank, as money would be useless, a six-hour day for the m'anual workor. Every family to possess- a motor-car. Petrol, like all Other neeessaries, would be supplied free in reasonable quantities." These are a few Socialistic ideas. A more fantastir policy of confiscations destructio::, and. foolishness would be hard to conceive. Yet every Labour candidate is pledged to support the Social ;tic objective of the New Zealand Labour Party, "the sbeialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange." The 'Labour' Party are making frantic efforts to gain the Treasury Benches by extravagant statements and promises, hnd a "pink policy." The commonsense of the New Zealand elector is no less than that of the British, and he will show his disapproval of such tactics at the ballotbox. — L.5.- — Published by arrangement.