LABOUR'S MANIFESTO

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 12

LABOUR'S MANIFESTO

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Although it is a fact, it is not generally known that the Labour Party and every Labour candidate is pledged to the objective of that party, namely: "The socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange." Surely, if this means anything at all, it means State farms, State shops, State industries, and State everything else. Yet, in the latest manifesto, signed by Messrs. H. E. Holland, H. G. R. Mason, and Walter Nash, an endeavour is apparently made to delude the electors of New Zealand, because it is said: "The call to all electors is for the expansion of industry so that those at present unemployed may. . make their own' homes." How is this reconciled with the objective of the party to which the gentlemen named belong? Keeping that objective in mind again, how can the Labour Party say: "With the maximum encouragement to private initiative and the careful co-ordinate planning of our requirements and production, we can start the Dominion once more on the road to prosperity." I should like to ask the gentlemen named if they still believe in their socialistic theory, or whether they have suddenly been converted to a system of private enterprise?—l am, etc., :,. gENJXaSTOK.