SOCIAL CREDIT AND LABOUR

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27591, 23 February 1955, Page 12

SOCIAL CREDIT AND LABOUR

MR OWEN REPLIES TO MISS HOWARD

Doubt that supporters of the Labour Party would believe party leaders who affirmed a belief in Social Credit philosophy is contained in a statement leader the Social Credit Political League (Mr W. B. Owen) last evening. Mr Owen was replying to remarks by Miss M. B. Howard, M.P., printed in “The Press” yesterday, that the Labour Party should investigate Social Credit and if there was anything in it should “pick the eyes out of it for the Labour Policy.” “I would like to congratulate Miss Howard as it seems that the common sense truth of Social Credit has penetrated her reason. She must, however be very naive to think that Labour supporters would believe the Labour leaders if they were again to state their Social Credit as they did in the 1935 election,” said Mr Owen “The Labour Party could never believe in Social Credit until it first got rid of its Socialism and then it would not be a Labour Party. “Socialism and Social Credit are poles apart. Socialism believes in aSrt tr s? Sed u CO - ntr £ 1 throu £ h bureacracy and the elimination of private enterprise. It believes that policy should be imposed from above by force, it believes that the only economic security 5vX° r £ H Y orships the State as an abstraction. In other words it is a ti ep K ng stone to Communism,” said Mr Owen.

“Social Credit is entirely opposed to these philiosophies. It believes in decentralised control, freedom in its Widest sense and that each individual and the nation is entitled to the fullest economic security which they and it can provide With such a philosophy, nM S h^V? V t, ocate J ocial Credit cannot help but have the welfare of the workers at heart," Mr Owen said