ELECTORS' CHOICE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 227, 24 September 1943, Page 4

ELECTORS' CHOICE

RIGHTS OF PEOPLE

MR. H. W. GLYNN'S CRITICISM

Claiming that the Labour party was controlled by the Federation of Labour, and the National party by big financial organisations, Mr. H. W. Glynn, Independent candidate for Roskill, made a vigorous attack upon the party system in an address in the Capitol Theatre last night. The Mayor of Mount Eden; Mr. R. J. Mills, presided over a small • audience.

"If you want party politics then vote National or Labour," said Mr. Glynn. "But if you do vote either then send only the leaders to the House and let them do the debating, because in any measure brought before the House, under the party system, the speakers are selected by the party "leaders." The party system as practised in New Zealand to-day was a vicious one, he declared. Control of Government If the Government of New Zealand was to be controlled by Messrs. Roberts and McLaglan and trades union secretaries, then the Government would be floundering in the gutter. The Labour Government had a proposal to put men on farms where the men would, be no better than serfs; it was also to set aside £40,000,000 for public works, where men would be able to get right away in the blackblocks with picks and shovels on schemes that would socialise the country. The Independents would see that wages were based upon costs, and not costs upon wages, and every man and woman woi-ker would be guaranteed a wage sufficient for a reasonably high standard of living. Necessities of life had gone up in price by 52 per cent. Family allowances under the Independents would be based upon the size of families, an increase being granted with the birth of each child. The increase in wages would be paid by the employer, the amount paid to be deductable from income tax.

The civil servant, said Mr. Glynn, was the most overworked and underpaid worker in the country. "And he might lose his job with Mrs. Dreaver's Gestapo watching him," said the candidate. The Independents would treat the civil servant as a human being, pay him a decent wage and give him the right to go to the Arbitration Court if he had a grievance. Mr* Glynn said the Independents would! encourage and assist private enterprise. This would not mean inflation because for any money advanced there would be a corresponding asset. Every assistance would be •given young people to acquire homes of their own. The Labour Government's housing scheme was killing ambition. The Independents, like the boys overseas, were to-day fighting for liberty, freedom and justice. "To-day you have the choice of party and autocracy on one side and liberty, freedom, democracy and justice on the other," concluded the ; candidate."