TWO PARTIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1943, Page 9

TWO PARTIES

ONE POLICY.

Mr. Lee's function as an. auxiliary of, the National Party .has frequentlybeen the subject of grateful references by National Party speakers. Thus Mr. Goosman said at the annual meeting of the National Party at Cambridge:— ■ • "We will probably never have a better chance of occupying the Treasury Benches. Mr. J. A. Lee would be a big help because he was determined to put the Labour Party out of power."---"Waikato Independent," June 16, 1943. But there is even more striking proof than this of the virtual coalition that exists between the National and Democratic Labour. Parties. Their reactionary views are identical. That Government houses are far too good for the people is the opinion expressed by Mr. Goosman of the National Party when he says, "Would it not be possible for the Government to experiment with some cheaper houses and see whether the people will take them?" Its echo is the remark of Mr. Mark Grace, Democratic Labour Candidate for Marlborough, who states, "My grouch about the State 4 Housing Scheme is that the houses they built were much too good." Their joint opposition to the Land Sales Act is "strikingly similar. Said Mr. Holland, "• • • it was a further | step along the road to the Government's goal for socialism," and Mr. Mark Grace again, "The Bill as it went through the House, aimed at socialisation of the land." ■ ■ Yet the policies of both parties in such phases as Social Security, Rehabilitation, etc, borrow freely from Labour's programme. Labour's course is set steadily to the goal of greater economic freedom for I all. Those who believe in National Security, Social Security, and Econo : mic Security will vote Labour again. —Advt -

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