"FINANCIAL POWERS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 7

"FINANCIAL POWERS."

SUGGESTED PRESSURE. In a statement made after the meeting with the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, on Saturday night, the Rev. A. J. Greenwood was reported as saving: "We feel that the Government has not implemented its election promises because of certain financial powers behind it. We are not yet an organisation, and we have not definitely decided upon a programme. Among us are men of different political views. There are Douglas Credit supporters, • British Israelites and business men who had no particular views on the utilisation of public credit, but who are now applying their minds to the problems that face us. I am a priest in an industrial area, and I say my people are no whit better off now than tliey were during the depression. We want to try to alter that. We don't care for the 'Kelly gangs' or anyone else. We are going to 'bust' them. That sounds drastic, but I think, we are going tc become one of the biggest organisations in the Dominion. We have with us the Douglas Credit movement, which is much larger than most people know. Then there are the British Israelites, who are all for social credit because they want to work out economic principles contained in the Bible. And with us, as I have said, are prominent men in the community."