DESTRUCTIVE LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 May 1922, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE LABOR.

THE MACHINERY OF STATE. “MUST BE BROKEN UP.” A remit of a very extreme type dealing with the objective of the Labor Party is to be submitted to the Labor Conference to be held in Auckland in July, by the Cftn terhi rry Trades and Labor Council The council suggests that after the words sorialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange,” shall be added the following: (1) *niat the New Zealand Labor Party cannot simply seize the availaWe machinery of the State and set it going for the objective and platform. (2) The New Zealand Labor Party must break up, shatter the available ready machinery of State, and not confine itself to merely taking possession of it. (3) Not the abolition of representative institutions and elective principles, but the conversion of the representative institutions from mere talking shops into working bodies. (4) Not a Parliamentary, but a working corporation, legislative and executive 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 workers, controllers, clerks, and so forth for its business in the same way as individual suffrage serves any employer in his business.