SOCIAL CREDIT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1938, Page 5

SOCIAL CREDIT

MR. W. B. BRAY NOT LEADER OF PARTY ATTITUDE TO GOVERNMENT (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Following the report of the resignation of Mr W. B. Bray, Christchurch, from the Labour Party, a statement has been issued by the headquarters in Wellington of the Douglas Social Credit Movement, denying that 'Mr Bray is the recognised leader of the movement and setting out the attitude of the movement and political parties. The statement, which is signed by the national secretary, Miss Dorothy Graham, is as follows: — “I should like to correct a wrong impression which may.be gained from the published account of the resignation of Mr W. B. Bray, of Christchurch, from the Labour movement. Chiefly, I desire to point out that while it is quite true that Mr Bray has been, and still is, an ardent supporter of Social Credit, he is not the recognised leader of the movement, and never has been. Mr Bray’s opinions in regard to the Labour Party, as published in your newspaper, are entirely his own, and not, as it would appear, the considered opinion of the movement as expressed through an official spokesman. It is, of course, quite true that many Social Credit supporters are disappointed with the Labour Government, and, as in Mr Bray’s case, some are definitely opposed to it. The general attitude of the movement, however, represents a disinterestedness in political parties, as such, but a desire to co-operate on a friendly basis wherever possible.”