FOSTERING CLASS DISTINCTION
POLITICAL PARTIES ACCUSED SOCIAL CREDIT LEADER’S ALLEGATION (New Zealana Press Association) INVERCARGILL, June 8. Both the Labour and Parties had been guilty of the worst type of vote splitting, in that they made New Zealanders acutely clasiconscious, said Mr W. B. Owen, leader of the Social Credit Political League, * whe ' he spoke to an audience of about 150 in Invercargill last evening. Mr Owen made this comment when referring to a statement issued in Christchurch on Wednesday by Mr J. B. Jenkins, chairman of the Canter-bury-Westland Division of the National Party. After an address to the division’s annual meeting. Mr Jenkins had described Social Credit as a “mild phase of political irritation.” and said that the Social Credit doctrines were untried, unwarranted and unwanted and yet could by vote-splitting cause damage far beyond their real strength in the community, said Mr Owen.
Social Credit represented one class, and that was the consumers. Mr Owen said. That meant everybody, and the league was “the one great movement that was going to mould all New Zealand's people into ■ homogeneous mass and get rid of the class distinction that had been perpetuated by the National and Labour' Parties."-
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27990, 9 June 1956, Page 2
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