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Grey River Argus, 7 October 1942, Page 3

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(To the Editor.) Sir,—l am not a very good hand at writing letters, but I would like to express my views, and if you get what 1 .mean, perhaps you can work up a message to our fellow workers through your paper. It is time the workers of New Zealand awakened for the sake of our fellow workers who are risking all in the front line, it is up to the workers who are on the home line to hold on to our hard-earned improvements under Labour rule. It is no use half the. workers running after the moon by putting up some fool Communist ideas at present. The workers must stick together, as they have too many odds against ithem. ■ Many midale class workers form one of the biggest drawbacks—once a man owns a business, no matter how small, he becomes

i: capitalist, often without really thinking so himself. There are seme who remain friends of the workers. but, on the other hand, there are those middle class workers who think they would benefit, with their few pounds, under Nationalist rule, for they never stop to think of the underdog at all. Yet it is the “under-dog” who pays every penny he earns into the purses of the middle class and who gets the sales tax added on to all he buys. Mr. S'. G. Holland talks of a general election whilst our men are away fighting, reckoning that the workers thereby would rurt the risk of losing what they have gained since Nationalist rule was eliminated. Our workers will have to pull together if they want to win through. After this war is over the workers will need to seek a more enlightened form of Government; one in which mere politics shall not be the sole consider■••iion. Let New Zealand show the world the way to run a country under a People’s Government. Let each class have so many members, the workers with their proper quota, rnd let those standing for election he those who know the trades and professions, —candidates ' familiar with mines, mills, factories, shops, wharves, etc. There also could be candidates representing the business, trading, professional and commercial

/ sect'ons. Thus a reduction in membership of the ruling institution would be possible without loss of efficiency. Then, instead of voting only for one, electors could, in larger districts, have the option to vote, say, for two. There would be .the two sections, workers and capitalists, represented in Parliament by Government and Opposition. The candidate with the highest poll on the successful side would automatically - become Prime Minister. Political, as contrasted with vocational government has all over the world had its day. It has failed. The world needs a .new order. Well the only new order that can be a success is for governments to be elected that will safeguard all sections. There needs to be also set up -a worldwide workers’ convention that there shall be no more wars for two decades. If the were not fighting, the “big fellows” would not want to be fighting. I, am, etc., NON-POLITICAL.