BRITISH FASCISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 14

BRITISH FASCISM.

ITS AIMS OUTLINED. LEADER EXPLAINS PROGRAMME. BLACKSHIBTS AND POUTICS. (By SIR OSWALD IIOSLEY.) LONDON, May 5. Fascism, the new political creed, of Europe, has reached Great Britain. The great meeting which crowded Albert Hall, the largest public hall in London, definitely marked this new phase of British political development. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that Fascism in Great Britain must necessarily adopt the same form as under Mussolini in Italy, or Hitler in Germany. Fascism is a universal creed of patriotic -reconstruction along modern lines and under the disciplined, control of a powerful central govenment. It came to both Italy and Germany under the. stress of a grave economic crisis, and when those countries were trembling on the verge of Communism. Under such circumstances, its advent was inevitably accompanied by soma degree of violence —but violence, it should be noted, far lees than those countries would have suffered in a red revolution. Germany and Italy embraced Fascism because they had to. Great Britain turns to Fascism because her people want it. The older political parlies in Britain are completely discredited. It is barely two years since the Socialists (Labourites) were swept from office by a national landslide, but already the National Government is covered with shame and ridicule and the pendulum is swinging hack, to the extreme left. Mass of Floating Votes. The old political system is breaking up because the greater part of the electorate does not know to which of the old parties to turn. It cannot trust one rjf them. A huge mass of floating votes, amounting to ten or fifteen thousand in each constituencj', is positively waiting for new political leadership. The black shirt movement is out to supply this lead and is rapidly gathering within its ranks the disillusioned members of all parties. Our policy is one of action and we seek the complete restoration of British prosperity and prestige. The black shirts are determined to combat the flabby policy of surrender which is rapidly breaking up the British Empire. In home affairs, we are violently opposed to the economic dictatorship of the bankers and' financiers in the city of London. We plan to set up a corporate state which will place every industry in the country under the direct control of a self-governing corporation, on which will sit representatives of employers, workers, and consumers. These will fix by negotiation the rates of wages, hours of work, and prices and terms of competition which will he legally binding for an industry as a whole. The Great Problem. These corporations will send representatives to a national council of corporations which will function as an industrial parliament. Here matters o£ general financial policy will be settled and the operations of the various industries controlled and regulated in the interests of the nation as a whole._ The black shirt movement recognises that the problem of under-consumption is the major economic problem of the day, and that it can only be solved by a general raising of wages and salaries over the whole field of industry, within the controlled system of the corporato state. This will increase purchasing power in the home market and enabic industry to produce cheaply by mass production methods for an assured market. - .. - , By these means the black shirts intend to brin" to an end the tyranny of the vested interests and the sham democracy of politics and to restore proapcrity to Great Britain.— (N.A.N.A.)