UNFULFILLED PLEDGES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20500, 17 May 1938, Page 14

UNFULFILLED PLEDGES

MENACE OF SOCIALISM MU J. G. COATES’ CRITICISM (Special to Times.) PA PAR OA, Monday Criticism was levelled by tlie Right Hon. J. G. Coates, M.P. for Knipara in ss it Paparoa on Saturday night- at the Government. Reduction In taxation had been promised, also the abolition of the sales tax, the reduction of the exchange rate and the abolition of unemployment. Those were four clear cut promises that had not been carried out, but instead taxfion had been increased and there were still between 25,000 and 26,000 unemployed. Mr Coates said the Socialist policy id i ■ eidy 1 applied in the commandeering of dairy produce, and the power existed to apply it to all other primary produce. The Government as saying tl it the rights of the - »ph w ould n d be interfered with, ■ ut. all Hie time Socialist principles were being practised. Before the country was committed irrevocably to Socialism tlie people should make a stand for individual freedom and initiative. The ideals of Hip Socialists placed . state is i diety. inder which men ■ would m reduced to an verage level • r *lt linment with the promise of maintenance on the same t verage level in old ago. A hureau..f ci\il servants would fix prices people’s produce, while Gov- ■ 1 1 t ion in internal marketing, with State revenues behind f. w .s manifestly unfair to the small »der. Snell a system would never - s it was nc mceix ible that , man would work as hard for the -rate • s he would for himself.