CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28684, 6 September 1958, Page 11

CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT

Labour Council’s Resolution

The Canterbury district council of the Federation of Labour on Thursday endorsed a resolution carried unanimously at a recent meeting of the Wellington district council, which affirmed continued support for the Government. The resolution also affirmed the faith of the council in the ability of the Government “to pilot the country back on to a sound economic basis.”

The council also congratulated the Government “on its resistance to sectional groups, ’.and implementation of its election promises.” “The failure of the previous Government to take adequate and immediate steps to correct the serious decline in overseas resources has made the necessary financial adjustments much more difficult to attain, in view of the Government’s firm intention to maintain a decent standard of living for the wage and salary earners, who comprise a majority of the people,” the secretary of the council (Mr C. R. Thomas) said in a statement to “The Press.”

“The council believes that just as the Labour Government of 1935 faced a difficult situation and surmounted many obstacles to attain a better standard of living for the, people, so will the present Labour Government bring to this country a degree of stability and prosperity for all of the people not attained under the previous administration,” Mr Thomas said.