DEMOCRATIC LABOUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1940, Page 8

DEMOCRATIC LABOUR

J FOUNDATION CONFERENCE ; OPENED * WAR DECLARED ON “MONEY POWER” y ■ 1 AND ON BOTH EXISTING ; PARTIES. 1 ' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) 3 WELLINGTON, This Day. 5 Opening the foundation conference of the New Zealand Democratic Labour Party, Mr P. Connors, chairman of the Provisional Executive, welcomed delegates to "a meeting that would help in the building of a better New Zealand.” The Labour Party, he said, had become a machine without a soul and the National Party was a party of yesterday. Democratic Labour would scrap both and start afresh. No mat- ’ ter what Messrs Fraser, Nash and Roberts might say to the contrary, the \ party was brought into existence because the money power had secured the expulsion of Mr Lee from the New ' Zealand Labour Party. Mr Connors ’ said he believed the conference was ' of vital importance to New Zealand’s future. The old order had failed; indeed it had long ago outlived its usefulness, and the Labour Party was elected to substantially change that old order. Democratic Labour represented the new order promised to the people in 1935 and in 1938, and betrayed in 1939 and 1940, and Democratic Labour would allow no individual or group of individuals to prevent a forward march towards the party’s objectives. The Conference was the first step in the creation of a party that would give to the people of New Zealand the splendid things promised by the Labour Party. The Democratic Labour Patty would give effect to the most vital part of the Labour Party’s policy—immediate control of credit and currency in the interests of the people. Every Labour so far elected had fallen down ano, worshipped at the citadel of private banking. Every Labour Government had been tolerated by private finance, and ruthlessly removed from office when private banking could no longer be served by its continuance in office,. The Democratic Labour Party

would not fail in the effort to make banking and finance t'he servant of man instead of his master. The forces which had created Fascism would not be defeated, said Mr Connors, if the soldier defeated Hitler and Mussolini and returned to find industry overburdened for the next few decades 'with an insufferable debt. It was enough that We should sacrifice men and materials to destroy. Fascism. without being called upon to make a regular sacrifice of men and materials before the shrine of orthodox finance. When the money power was the slave and man the master, oui' peace life would be worthier and in I the meantime our war effort would be j greater. | “We are starting afresh.” said Mr. 1 Connors. “The Labour Party, domin- \ ated by a few political bosses and a I few industrial bosses, has become a machine without a soul and without a purpose except z self-perpetuation. The Nationalist Party is a party of yesterday, a party of 1914, a party representing banking interests. We have recruited and we shall recruit from both the old parties. Ou)' mission is to scrap both old gangs and start afresh.”