LABOUR POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1911, Page 3

LABOUR POLITICS.

MR. MOORE'S CANDIDATURE. At Island Bay last night Mr. F. T. Moore, Labour candidate for the Suburbs seat, advocated an industrial workers' co-operative scheme whereby the employees of any industry who are dissatisfied with the pay and Conditions under which they are working can a«k the State to advance the capital required to buy out the owners' interest in such Indus* t?J', so that the employees can reap the whole fruits of their labour after payment of interest and sitiking fund charges <m the capital loaned by the State. The speaker contended that the Workers' Dwelling .and Land for Settlement Acts practically provided the worker with all the capital he required ih order to procure a home of his own, and it was but an extension of these measures to apply the same principle to industrial schemes *o that the worker may become his own master. He also said that, the dissatisfaction sxistini? among railway and tramway servants throughout New Zealand could be best overcome by allowing these servant* to take over the management and control of their tespeetive public 1 services. In regard to railways, he felt sure that ifc was absolutely necessary to remove them from political control, ahd the people best qualified to handle this big concern wore the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, who. should be given the opportunity of taking over the whole system on payment of interest and sinking fund on the capital invested, and who would then be entitled to the whole of the earnings above these first charge?. Our primary industries, stidh as bread,' meat, and t butter supplies; could be taken over in Ihe same f way by the employees engaged ih working these trades, and t by this means the supposedly Utopian dreams of a co-operativo Com* monwealth would be practically realised, fpr he felt sure that &% soon as one section of "Trada Unionists became their own employers fehd master* other sections' would speedily desire to occupy a similar position, until pr&ctically every branch of trade and commerce was embraced in the scheme. In conclusion, he said 4 that there Wouk! be no industrial rest in the world until this or some such schema was adopted.