SOCIALISATION

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19894, 25 May 1936, Page 5

SOCIALISATION

EXTENSION PREDICTED. i ] OWNERSHIP OF LAND? _— MR POLSON ATTACKS LABOUR. ___—- (By Telegraph—Special Reporter.) | MORRINSVILLE, .\londay. A dreatlo extension of the Labour Government's aeolalletlo Pl‘Ogramme was predictod by Ml‘ WJ. Poison, M.P.. Dominion PM." dent of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. addressing a meeting of primary produoore at Mon-Ink ville to-day. He contended that by next year the Government will have brought meet and wool under its oumntoed prices scheme and will have put Into efieot e denim-ed Intention of sociallem of the ownorehlp ot land throughout the country. Mr Poison said that the three first Acts of the Government had socialiserl banking. marketing and exchanse. He had no objection to State control 01 banking but he denounced political control when the Minister of Finance could tell the Reserve Bank to set out to—morrow it he wished. All the safeguards imposed on the directorate had been removed and the sky 10-dfly “35 indeed the limit. The power existed to do what he liked. All the money realised (ram the sale of primary produce would pass into the Reserve Bank and the Government would have absolute control over every ounce of produce. Mr Poison predicted the extension or the socialistlc programme and said the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act was just another step in the earns direction. The existing Arbitration Act had been working satisfactorily and Labour authorities had expressed the opinion that it was a conepicuous success. The trades union section had no control and the amended Act. making unionism compulsory, made one law for the worker and one for the employer. linion organisations in \Veilington would control secondary industries as strongly as the Russian comitern with drastic effects on distribution. Mei-lining 111 l Auslled. Discussing the Marketing Bill. the - speaker said that farmers had urged] the compensating price and had never I believed the produce would be taken over completely by the Government. They had been brought down to the lowest industry in New Zealand and they would rank economically with the lowest paid workers. Imports as well as exports would be largely controlled by the State. " The price is to be based on several considerations and the principle is expounded in terms exactly similar to the Employment Promotion Act. where it Is stated in relation to minimum . wages that the worker is to be assured of a wage that will keep himself, wife I and three children in reasonable com« tort. Ail people are to be placed on the same level." said Mr Poison. who alleged that the stated policy of issu—ing credit was revolutionary, The Premier had said there was nothing “ red " about the legislation, but .\lr Nash had been more frank and had said tlrst or the Bill that it was the Government‘s initial step towards a new social order. The farmers had voted under a delusion, .\lr Savage havlng pledged the Government to complete agreements with the representatives of industry to pay guaranteed prices. " conference e Farce." The Dairy Aaaoolatlon comerenee In Wellington had been a farce and had received only a diotatlon of a plan. The detenuu had been told they could discuss the proposals but not. alter them. The speaker contended that the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act had given the worker the power to charge almost what he liked for his labour but the farmer was rc—uuired to accept it iixcii price for produce. Ilc I‘IHIIII rcceirc no iuurrase nor any more than thc minimum. observing that the Lluvernincnl'sl programme had already causcd an! upward it‘iitlt‘ili‘}' in priros. .\lr i‘oLi sun said Australian farnn‘rs would not ilv‘iighted at the turn of cronis nsi they were bring glvvn :m Mroilnut m - 5 vantage in competition on tho over-i was markets. .\lrcmiy Australia iiilili advanced so far iiirii inst .\onr Hit“ ijnnu'nonwcnlih's inittrr \\us making' tins, compared \\iiil Dis for New" Zl-uiunii. I The Guaranteed Price. ' it “as sainl iimi iiir‘ L'imrnnirmi'; price \\as in im imam] on \\(‘iuiiimlr nwragc -fur the past eight or irn‘ 3611'5, ills investigations showed iiillll the price would in‘ is It lid in 'l‘nrnnaki i fliiil lartnrics this season expel-it'll to '..iy out nwr Is. .\lr Poison poiniml‘ nut that two things must happen imfnre iii» Inrmcz‘ i-ouiii rm‘n‘iu- n gunr-l nntcmi prirv lin must inrrrnsc ”it“ \\'ruzm cost in {li iI-nsi iiii‘ l‘tilil\'.lit‘iii] ni‘ mnrn liiill ivi prr iii an iim rim-t or: production in i‘.n.il. Iliiil iin' HitVt'l'li‘V‘ nmnt. Mains: tho itcwrn- ltnuii in] finnnrt' iiii‘ ilmi‘iw‘i‘u: .\i'hi‘ilii‘, \\Jis‘ l‘uiiiniiiiin: iiwii‘ in Al ii'.l.\i L‘iiUililL—i mm in the nut lElrvu _\t‘i!'>, This int-.int iniiuiiun unii .u' ll.ll'i.ii “pinion. gum “with! to iiiv' \i:*\\ [Suit tiii- [iv-iv mum of inii.lii-u| \\lliiiil unwind in lilo: I‘lilii\.iil‘ni «li' :Ii inn: L’ti :wr iii on: bitifu‘i'i'ni in tho iii-xi i\\l\ )I-lrs. 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