DEMOCRATIC LABOUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1943, Page 3

DEMOCRATIC LABOUR

“NEW CREDIT TECHNIQUE” ADVOCATED BY MR LEE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr J. A. Lee, leader of the Demo- . cratic Soldier Labour Party, in his message to electors, says:— “On one day in three years—indeed, sometimes on only one day in five years —is the elector given opportunity of passing judgment upon Parliament. Two verdicts are given—one for, one against. We live in times wherein new men and methods only are capable of finding solution to the great problems of this age. Some folk look backward, hanker after a return to the days of 1914 before war, the locomotive of history, started to speed up mechanical and chemical development and make possible an age of leisure, culture, plenty, when we mobilise for the arts of peace as we now mobilise for the. arts of war. “The National Party has its aspirations in yesterday, the Labour Party, which once possessed a transforming zeal, is now only a tired group of paid caretakers of the status quo. Neither of these parties has any solution for the problems of the morrow. They do not face squarely the problem of rebuilding New Zealand on the basis of human welfare, they lack comprehension of the 18s and 19s taxation in perpetuity which our present debts will bequeath to posterity, thus ending all hope of a new social order unless a new credit technique enables us to base welfare on what is physically possible and not on what is desirable to maintain an outmoded money and credit policy. As for the Independents, it is at once obvious that they cannot win a new order but only build a Tower of Babel. “Democratic Soldier Labour will face the problem of winning a credit and currency technique which will make 1 financially possible that measure of nation-building and standard of welfare that is physically possible. We would' build housing, new industries, engage in land development with credit supplied at nominal rates. We are determined to ensure a substantial income for motherhood.

“Nationalist and Labour do not face tomorrow's problems. They avoid today’s. The Labour Party justifies its excessive manpower commitments; Mr Holland dissents, but in evasive terms. No one knows which division he in-

tends to maintain, though at Christchurch East by-election he was against the return of the Middle East division. Democratic Soldier Labour is straightforward. We would not send New Zealanders on to Europe.

“It is three weeks since there was a Democratic Soldier Labour broadcast. In the interim I have talked to immense audiences everywhere. Whom the Fraser-Labour Party fear, they exclude from the microphone. May we ask all electors to disregard abuse and fear, and vote for their faith, as New Zealanders die for faith and not for fear on the battlefield.”