NOT THE LEADER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 14

NOT THE LEADER.

MR. BRAY'S POSITION.

DOUGLAS CREDIT STATEMENT. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. A statement has been issued by the headquarters in Wellington of the Douglas Social Credit Movement, denying that Mr. Bray is the recognised leader of the movement and setting out the attitude of the movement to the Labour Government and political parties. The statement, which is signed by the national secretary, Miss Dorothy Graham, is as follows:— I should like to correct a wrong impression which may be gained from the published account of the resignation of Mr. W. B. Bray, of C'hristehurch, from the Labour movement. Chiefly, I desire to point out that while it is quite true that Mr. Bray lias been, and still is, an ardent supporter of Social Credit, he is not the recognised leader of the movement, and never has been. Mr. Bray's opinions in regard to the Labour party, as published, are entirely his own, and not, as it would appear, the considered opinion of the movement as expressed through an official spokesman.

It is, of course, quite true that many Social Credit supporters are disappointed with the Labour Government, and, as in Mr. Bray's case, some are definitely opposed to it. The general attitude of the movement, however, represents a disinterestedness in political parties, as such, but a desire to cooperate on _ a friendly basis wherever poeeißle. .