LABOUR IN BRITAIN AND MAORILAND
Maoriland Worker, Rōrahi 12, Putanga 301, 6 Hakihea 1922, Page 5
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LABOUR IN BRITAIN AND MAORILAND
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Mr. W. Nash, secretary.-of tlvs. Me.?,' Zealand Labour Party, has &&!% the foliow.vKg-.;letter to the-Editor e»'£-- v •*^Pixo : Dominion? • ' Dear Sir, —It fs good tv read in"The Dominion"- of "the advance of B.rUish , Labcuri"." 'A'fae j ooteworthy iiicludcs the election of: J. Ramsay Mac Donald, tii.9 ■ Tsriiliant Socialist member of Old.-lift, the most virile critic of I-loyil George-Curzon and and Ckm- Ckm,-chill. ■ .-■ '■■ .•■ ■■-■ •■■• E. D. Editor of. ."Foreign Affairs'''--Exnoser of tlf? Congo Atrocities—Author of "Truth ami I tli-9 War" —(imprisoned by the I3rlt- j ish 'Government 'during vue v.'.h.pj. | land now engaged hi a. crusa&e to achieve the revision of. ih% Vors-aM I Iles Treaty. * ;" Sydney 'Webb, th» nf the Labour Party—one o" -the ablest economists in the English-:>iseiilc'i>g,! ■ world —a member of the 'British'" Coal Commission . which recommended nationalisation cZ the j mines. Tom Johnson- Editor- oi- ■ Glaiigravr J *'Forv/ard','"' wh&se chief jpropnganda in the past year has been in favour of adjusting interest oil Wai*- Loans in accord w,iih tlie cost o? ■ living. " ' ■ .■'■'■' '"■'■'' : Philip the ■■Vale. ,Trea-3 r ' _ tirer oi! tho 1.L.P., who was,, with j Ramsay Mac)~>onald ,Us cl - l '^-f.,j scource* of spiritual chii'fa^j the war years. j There are otherts, b-ut i.he celavaiis-j o£ ""Tjie Dominion" are. not sufficient j, to tell the- story oi- the- men- wiio'liareS ■fought''and wojt tli e fight- that will! once more place the Okl Country on 11)e road to Freedom. 33rery Laljonr j Leader in New Zealand antl .a-H- uher'icountries recognises that unless a' : good day's work is • rUmo, die aster- will' i'oltow , . It 3iuh followed. Can you coT)£i J J'ven worse disaster thau. the. yhastlyj' h(>!ocaust ot: JDI4-ISIS. It is; because . ihoy roalip-e tins tti|~,t tae vronzvi-s} have seui. their own rep-rosctitative-a! to take the first step toward Llie vhaiu£.Q.oi sj sLentv-. But disaster! %vliat could be a worse disaster 'for any country or civilisation than to -litres-" ndiiibus Cm ~my and all counti-ioi;) dying for want of *her- nenes.-<lties oj| life, not because the necessities - are,,,; not in being, .but because..the dia- ' tributive system has failed, and. failed--]-] miserably-. The- trouble with- -ihej l world to-day is surplus, not shortage. | The acreage for cotton giinving tnvb-.j i hor cultivat'-on, and' tea,, have- < 1)11 been reduced because of: -the snr- ; 3)lus stocks. Here in New. ft&alan;! ; Three mill-ion bush-els of wheat in' l finrplus-, millions- of bales of wool-pt ivait'ing for a market, and, hx the Old .t Country they dole out 15"/- per week l to feed the people who could 'be pro- 1 rtnctively employed-—and' , in Zea.- ■ lixud they open Food Depots , . The remedy in New Zealand',- ii in. "' Great Britain, tb to return to poww '' men wh 0 have sutftcieprt vision so sea { that the system is at faulr, that must, bo changed, and a new found'a- !' tion hiidiii ■- ■■"■;■:*- .■ i The Objective-of the' British Laljour i' c Pariy ianti tha New ( Party are- idenvcai'. Common Ownership ot iho- me-arrs of t production, to secure the fall mitt's ji ■for the producers. i The first day of the good work v,'?«> I November 1J» last, when tlio British I- : v/orkerH .sent to many oh their own , ' A representatives to take ■ in tlw ' remodelling of the Economic System toil basis o*'Service. ■
