LABOUR'S PLANS

Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 July 1935, Page 17

LABOUR'S PLANS

IN EVENT OF RETURN

WORK FOR ALL MEMBERS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

GISBORNE, July 30.

Addressing a fair audience at Gisborne tonight, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. M. J. Savage, stated that if given a majority in the next Parliament Labour would introduce new methods by which the rank and file members of the Government supporters would be permitted to serve. The intention was to co-opt the services of all members elected under the banner of Labour with the object of making the representatives of the people something more than mere voting machines. All Government members would be expected to play a part in the promotion of legislation and the administration of the law for the purpose of transforming the Dominion into the comparative paradise that its productive forces justified. Every Labour member willing to give a full measure of service would be associated with the Minister in the particular Department wherein he was best fitted to serve, while Ministerial authority would be maintained to the full. Steps would be taken to establish groups of the people's representatives in Parliament as against the growing number of Royal Commissions, the members of which acted without the authority of the people. Farmer members would be associated with the Ministers of Lands and Agriculture; miners would be associated with the Minister of Mines, and so on, until all Departments were covered.

Mr. Savage expressed the opinion that with the assistance of the people far-reaching changes could, and would, be made during the life of the first Labour Government.

A vote of thanks to Mr. Savage and confidence in the Labour Party was carried.