NEW METHODS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 227, 24 September 1943, Page 2

NEW METHODS

PROBLEMS OF TO-DAY

DEMOCRAT LABOUR'S VIEW

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday.

The leader of the Democratic Labour party, Mr. Lee, in his message to electors, says: "On one day in three years—indeed, sometimes on cne day in five years—is the elector given an opportunity of passing judgment upon Parliament. "We live in times wherein new men and methods only are capable of finding a solution to the great problems of this age. Some folk look backward and hanker after a return to the days of 1914. Before the war the locomotive of history started to speed up mechanical and chemical development and make possible an age of leisure, culture and plenty, when we mobilised for the arts of peace, as we now mobilise for the arts of war.

"The National party has its aspirations in yesterday. The Labour party, which once possessed transforming zeal, is now only a tired group of paid caretakers of the status quo. Neither of these parties has any solution for the problems of the morrow. They do not face squarely the problem of rebuilding New Zealand on the basis of human welfare.' They lack comprehension of the 18/ and 19/ taxation in perpetuity which our present debts ■will bequeath to posterity, thus ending all hope of a new social order, unless a new credit technique enables us to base welfare on what is physically impossible and not on what is desirable to maintain an outmoded money and credit policy. As for the Independents, it is at once obvious that they cannot win a new order, but only build a Tower of Babel. Credit and Currency "Democratic Labour will face the problem of winning a credit and currency technique which will make financially possible that measure of national building and standard of welfare that is physically possible. We would build housing and new industries, and engage in land development with credit supplied at nominal rates. We are determined to ensure a substantial income for motherhood. Nationalist 'and Labour do not face tomorrow's problems; they avoid to-day's.

"The Labour party justifies its excessive manpower commitments. Mr. Holland dissents, but in evasive terms. No one knows which Division he intends to maintain, although at the Christchurch East byelection he was against the return of the Middle East Division. Democratic Labour is straightforward. We would not send the New Zealanders on to Europe. "It is three weeks since there was a Democratic Labour broadcast. In the interim I have talked to immense audiences everywhere. Whom the Praser-Labour party fear they exclude from the microphone. May we ask all electors to disregard abuse and fear and vote for their faith as New Zealanders die for faith, and not for fear, on the battlefield."