TELL NEW ZEALAND

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 144, 15 March 1938, Page 8

TELL NEW ZEALAND

New Youth Organisation Formed EARL BALDWIN’S “TORCH” “You are the governors of the future. We are passing on to you the duty of guarding and safeguarding what is worthy and worth while in our past, our heritage and our tradition, our honour and all our hopes."—-Earl Baldwin’s words in a recent speech addressed to the youth of the nation are the inspiration of the Tell New Ze'aland Campaign, a newly-formed youth organisation, the broad objects of which are summarised as follows: — To foster a spirit of co-operation between employer and employee, in place of the present doctrine of class war, with a view to increasing the efficiency of business and the freedom of those engaged in it. To see that trade union fees are not simply a “tax” upon workers for the purpose of assembling immense sums to finance the socialistic bureaucracy, and to guard against building up union funds to a point where leadership in unions becomes not a fight to serve the unionists, but a fight to get control of the funds. The campaign committee, in the course of a statement, says: “A prime concern of any movement which claims to call to the people, must be the care of the people. Under capitalism, the danger to the people is that they be delivered into the hands of a greedy plutocracy which uses wealth unfairly as a means of power. The danger of Socialism lies in the political action which centralises all power, economic, social and even spiritual, in the hands of a small group. The capitalist evil is the lesser of the two, and the first duty in a campaign for freedom, is to remove the Socialist bureaucracy, and to cure or remove the evils within the capitalist system.”. It i.s intended to establish a Unionists’ Self-Reliance Association, a medium through which all loyal.unionists who prefer freedom to compulsion may give expression to their rights. It is believed that a more positive campaign for physical fitness may well be led by the younger men and women of the Dominion, and a committee has been appointed to assist in this work and to co-ordinate the activities of existing women’s organisations. The campaign is sponsored by the New Zealand Welfare League, the secretary of which writes: “This league gladly sponsors the ‘Tell New Zealand Campaign’ because it is in accord with the objectives advocated by the Welfare League for many years, and because it is necessary and desirable to unite all auxiliary bodies in one campaign.” The campaign manager, Mr. John A. Griffiths, and the organiser, Mr. A. O. Wallace, have written to Earl Baldwin, telling him that a number of the younger men of the Dominion are reaching out to accept the torch which he has handed to them.