SOCIAL CREDIT.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19889, 19 May 1936, Page 10

SOCIAL CREDIT.

NEW BLOW IN ALBERTA. £5-A-MONTH PLAN IMPERIL. (From a Correspondent.” MONTREAL, March 27. The definite breach in the relations between Mr William Aberhart, Premier j of Alberta, and Major C. H Douglas, ! founder of the Social Credit system, is regarded outside Social Credit circles as giving the death-blow to the Alberta Government’s hopes of introducing monthly dividends —a promise which i was the principal factor in the party’s overwhelming victory in the last provincial election. The promise, part of the Social Credit system, was of a free bonus \ of £5 each month for every man and I woman in Alberta. Major Douglas re- | cently resigned as economic adviser to j the Government because it increased taxation in the Budget. Thp Montreal Gazette says: “ Nobody doubts Mr Aberhart’s good faith, but in the light of his latest utterance one need not possess the aptitude of a political prophet to venture to predict the dissolutiQn of the Legislature and a general election in Alberta at a not very distant date.” “ Only Half-Hearted.” Meanwhile the Social Credit camp is plunged into bewilderment. Members, all along buoyed up by the expectation that the differences would be smoothed, fail to understand Major Douglas’ refusal to come to Alberta in view of the opportunity to demonstrate the practicability of Social Credit. Mr Aberhart has stated that the three men, Mr Spencer, Mr Boyd, and Mr Collins, whom Major Douglas indicated as useful consultants, were “ only half-hearted supporters of Social Credit.” He added: ”1 do not care to express an opinion favourable to any of them. We had not time to consider obtaining further expert advice.”