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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 29

Fora fuller,happier Ibie amily Vife keep LABOUR in! No other Government in New Zealand' $ history has More JOBS , BETTER JOBS UNDER LABOUR done more to make home a place of happiness than There are two ways of making work: You can pay men to shovel dirt Labour has. It abolished the fear of insecurity. It made where machines could do the job a hundred times faster__or you can possible a new high level of living standards. It pro- encourage useful production that creates new goods for people to buy, vided services and amenities which its opponents de- and new jobs for the men who make the goods. Labour took the second clared impossible. New Zealand homes no longer know road to record prosperity. Industry flourished as never before. Since the meaning of fear; Labour took over, 40,000 new jobs exist that were never there before. And do those who cry "Labour shortage" to-day want unemployment back again? AlI jobs to-day are better paid, than ever before: And LABOUR KEPT PRICES DOWN Nowhere else working conditions, with shorter hours and annual holidays, have never in the British Empire have prices been SO successfully controlled aS in been better. The fact that there IS a job for the bread-winner , that New Zealand: Despite war-time shortages of goods and foodstuffs, its 0 WELL-PAID job and that its CONDITIONS are better than ever prices have been held firmly on all the essential needs of the home. Some are all-important in adding happiness and security to family life: prices have risen, of course, because the costs of imported raw mat- erials have risen but when you make comparisons WItH ANY OTHER COUNTRY OF THE WORLD; you will still see that the New Zealander LABOUR ATTACKS THE HOUSING PROBLEM is best off. Rationing, too, has ensured that everyone gets their fair share This is a simple fact about house-building that stands out above all in a time of shortage and prevents those with most money getting most goods. Price control protects the family budget under Labour. criticism. Under Labour , despite six war years when labour and material were diverted to defence purposes, more houses have been built than in any other similar period in our history: Last year, the Private home SOCIAL SECURITY MEANS FINANCIAL builder and the Government together built an all-time record number of houses ! And in the next five years Labour plans the building of 60,000 SECURITY IN TIMES OF STRESS When Labour homes: Labour stands for MORE homes, and BETTER homes. went into office there was no provision for invalids (other than the blind ) , nothing for widows once their children turned sixteen , no sickness bene fits; a family allowance paid only to people on the breadline, and an old-age pension of 17/6 a week for those over 65. Then Labour intro- duced Social Security__real financial se curity against misfortune and sickness and old age: This new idea was bitterly Dpposed the beobe Nationelistzedan New "Zealatacgeoded LZD Now, from birth to old age, there is shield of protection to guard the family Vo SECURITY from financial disaster , to protect them FAMLLY when they are sick or bereaved , to se cure through family benefits and other FOR safeguards the means of freedom, when ever economic welfare is threatened. W53 end