PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21354, 22 December 1934, Page 11

PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

TO THE XDlTOfi OP THE PRESS. Sir, —The productive machine of the world has demonstrated beyond all doubt that it can supply in abundance all the goods and services that people need, or could possibly use. The shops and warehouses are full of goods that cannot be bought. At the same time many thousands of people in New Zealand alone are on the bread line. Goods and services (i.e., food, clothing, shelter, amusements, luxuries, and facilities for cultural leisure) lie unused on one side; 011 the other are multitudes of slaving people, hopeless and wretched because they cannot use these things they sorely need and have themselves created.

In the name of God, why is this? Why is it that people cannot have the things they have themselves made? It is high time our politicians were forcibly dragged to face the facts. Every elector should say to his representative, "Here are rotting, piles and piles of all the things that people need to make them happy. Over there are vast numbers of poor people who urgently need these things. See to it at once that the pile of goods, etc., is shifted into the homes of the people. Do it now; never mind about putting 2d duty on cigarette papers and that sort of rot. Remedy this glaring wrong before you do anything else—or get out and make room for someone who will."—Yours, etc., JUSTICE TRUTH. December 21, 1934.