PENWOMEN'S CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 14

PENWOMEN'S CLUB.

Tho Douglas social cro-it scheme was the subject of a talk before the members of the Penwomen's Club yesterday afternoon by Mr. Rex Fairburn. The president, Mrs. Carr-Rollett, occupied the chair. As penwomen she said she felt that it was the duty of the members to be enlightened on this subject. Mr. Fairburn said it was a duty to try for any solution of the present difficulties. The control of money was in private hands, and it was his opinion that system was all wrong, as could be seen by the present monetary position. The warehouses were all full, and the farmers turning out food, but it was not being consumed. This wealth was being blocked from use for some particular reasons. Only a small proportion of money was banknotes or gold. It was mostly credit. The only claim on money was some form of work. If a machine was allowed to supplant a worker then the goods produced by the machine could not be consumed. Logically it might be possible for a man to control all the machines by pressing a button. He would then' be wealthy while the others starved. The problem was to distribute goods. There was no scarcity of goods, but they did not reach the people. Money was made by a banker taking a pen and writing. It was possible that this could be done by the people themselves. It did not matter whether it was a Labour party or a Conservative party, it was a question of getting the goods consumed by the people, and the only thing which could do this was control by the State. The State should exercise its sovereign right in relation to money as it did in law. During the afternoon songs were given by Miss Edna Craig, and afternoon tea was served by the members.