INDUSTRIAL REGULATIONS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23204, 16 December 1940, Page 10

INDUSTRIAL REGULATIONS

TO THE EDITOR or THE PRESS. Sir. —Mr Machin's reaction to the Minister’s denials with three glaring cases of bureaucratic tyranny under industrial licensing leaves the rebel still on the box seat. If three such cases can come under the notice of one individual, there must be a goodly number of other shocking examples, if those who are familiar with them would do their duty to the voting public by airing them, as Mr Machin has done,, in the daily press. The Government will need every available vote if it hopes to get, back to its dictatorial role after the next election; and an exposure on a bigger scale by those who could publish the uncomfortable facts would compel the Government to put, the soft pedal on too much official interference. Those now under licence would then be able to breathe more freely, as would also those under the possible threat of compulsory licensing.—Yours, etc,, * GO TO IT. December 14, 1940.

TO THE EDITOa 07 THE PEE 33. Sir,—lt is most refreshing to see that such able men as Mr Wm. Machin are directing public attention to the effect of the subtle legislation that is being placed on the Statute Book. It is time such men took an active interest in the preservation of liberty in New Zealand. Mr Machin’s lucid writings leave no loopholes for doubt and no amount of wriggling, political or otherwise, will get the public mind away from the danger that he exposes. May I suggest that fruit marketing business would be a fair subject for his pen to expose.—Yours, etc., THANKS. December 11, 1940.

TO THE E-DXTOB OJ THE PHE33. Sir, —I wonder if Mr Machin has considered the possibility that businessmen are losing control over their enterprises more by consent than by compulsion? In consenting to work their businesses within the framework of a financial system which decrees that industrial costs can be liquidated (and only in part) by involving the whole community in unrepayable debt, businessmen have themselves to blame if they find themselves playing second fiddle. Unless these same businessmen do some solid thinking and get to understand the diverse processes of credit creation and destruction and the wide scope for arbitrary- manipulation In that field, they will continue blindly to walk into the net of socialisation (not socialism), which is spread for them.—Yours, etc., . ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY. December 14, 1940.