STREET MEETING

Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 17

STREET MEETING

Last evening, at the head of Dowling, street, Mr John Gilchrist addressed a large meeting, his subject being, ‘ This Slavery. 1 in his opening remarks, he stated that he hud not yet received a permit from the City Council to speak on the streets. In' fact, the General Committee had turned down his request. , However, he was in hopes that af the full meeting of the council next Wednesday a permit would be granted. Mr Gilchrist then went on to review the general situation, which, he said,showed a most amazing state of things.. On the one hand, an appalling poverty. 1 affecting an ever-increasing number or people, was in evidence, while, on the other hand, prodigious wealth was be- , mg piled up in the stores and ware-, houses of the civilised centres. This had been brought about by a very foolish notion of economy. Propaganda had been most insidiously at work to make the people believe that there was a need for this because of the straitened financial resources.. The tragedy was that this propaganda had in a large measure been accepted by not only the. - working classes, but by the business men, AH were now beginning to see ■ the falseness in urging economy in the . midst of a wondrous plenty of good things. If" this practice of a falsa economy continued! then there Was nothing else facing the whole community but bankruptcy and poverty.