CAMPAIGN NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 8

CAMPAIGN NOTES

"NEARER ONE ANOTHER"

!?* "From reports that come to us over |^the wireless and through the Press I that-.the Hon. P. Fraser and the S Hon. R. Semple have been quoting vfwhat I say with approval," said Mr. <f*O. C. Mazengarb, speaking at" Lower §Hutt last night. "They welcome the H opinions frequently expressed by me IS that cuts and reductions of. pay are j£not the way out of an .economic degpression. Both these Ministers were If previously reported as advising 2§ various groups of workers that they r"must give a fair return for the wages lithat are paid to them. Perhaps this g shows that we are getting- a 'little 'd nearer one another' as regards the g mutual obligations of employers and ■ g employees. g "But there is this fundamental difs§ ference between the Socialists and the § Nationalists —our ultimate objectives S are at variance. The Socialists befplieve that the greatest good can be 5f achieved through having the whole of Sour production organised by the g State and placing every artisan and •# professional man on the Government sS pay roll. On the other hand, the S Nationalists believe that such a sysgf tern stifles enterprise, blocks the door j| : of opportunity, and reduces everyP one to a common level. S "In Parliament I will always be iS ready to advocate the cause of the W: working people as I have done in the £ past. But I refuse to believe that the H people who work with hand or brain oor both hand and brain desire to £? usher in the day when they are to 3 say good-bye to freedom, enterprise, r| and opportunity and relegate them- § selves entirely to State positions, .** State pay, and State pensions." If Knox Hall was crowded. Mr. A. J. II Gearing presided. At the conclusion S of the* meeting a resolution was passed jH expressing "the utmost confidence in in Mr. Mazengarb as the candidate for the |§ district."