THE TRANSITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 170, 20 July 1936, Page 6

THE TRANSITION.

Our new Labour Government has undertaken the greatest of all tasks that oan confront any administrative faculty, to wit, the transition, or change-over, from an old system to a new social and economic order. An appeal has gone forth to find out just how far the great mass of our citizens are willing to assist in a spirit of co-operation in the extent of the change in this, our present time and day. n e are forced to realise that they who have known want and distress will certainly fight most strenuously against being forced backward into a state of want and distress after they ha\ e achieved any modicum of emancipation. The new Labour Government has opened many avenues to lift the lower strata of our social life to better conditions and is moving forward to give greater stability and security of life to the great mass of our people. In any change-over there must be many who through ignorance or selfish will object to the introduction of changes in our social and economic order that have hitherto favoured their particular interests, even though their advantages have been so held and enjoyed to the grievous disadvantage of the many. Disparity in economic and social advantages have in the past been i e.-jionsible for many atrocious crimes against both the guilty and innocent during the transition change. We have the examples of the past by which we should be guided in our future relations toward the new order our present Government is about to inaugurate, lite revolutions of Franco prior to the advent of the nineteenth century and the Russian offoi t not so manv vears ago. The future depends, upon the spirit of toleration that is developed betwixt the Governmental and opposition forces. If the present Government be denied tl:o right that is constitutionally theirs to implement- their election pledges a spirit of mass antagonism may be produced, to the grave disadvantages of our national interests, CHARLES LAWRLV.