CALL FOR UNITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 6 July 1936, Page 5

CALL FOR UNITY.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Your report of the lit. Hon. G. W. Forbes’s speech at Auckland, which appeared in your issue of the 2nd inst., certainly gives food for thought. The assertion that the savings of the people are absolutely under tiie control of the Labour Government is quite true. It is, as it always has been, and the depositor has no more difficulty in withdrawing his require-ments-than in years gone by. I disdinctly remember what the late Government termed voluntary conversion of loans, that were not voluntary by any means are far as the people were concerned. During the time of the past Government in office the whole country suffered a severe depression, and the present Government is just lifting us out of it slowly but surely*. Mr Forbes told his bearers also that our children are under the control of the Government. Regarding the welfare of young children, it is the same as of yore. The Government takes charge of helpless mites who are neglected by parents. There is no doubt about the power of the Government, past as weT as. present. The past Government voter themselves an extra year of office knowing they would be puslic-d out So they secured for themselves an extra year of hectic spending of taxpayers’ money, with nothing to show for the expenditure. So the new tyranny is no worse than the old. Mr Forbes’s assertion that every man has to join a union is sheer nonsense, and the vapourings of a disturbed mind. He surely was thinking of past legislation when unions, awards, and Arbitration Couits were the nightmare of the working class. God forbid that pre-war conditions in the industrial world should ever return to. New Zealand, and it is to be hoped that very few will feel that disaster such as we have suffered from past Governments will ever overtake us under the Labour Party’s regime. Hon. H. T. Armstrong’s intention to appoint 10 inspectors to administer the fair rent legislation is very commendable, and should meet with the approval of every* honest person. Rents at present need regulating; the same applies to the price of land. I trust that in the very near future every citizen will be a servant of the Government. We have too many shirkers and not enough workers. We have

too many who demand more than they are worth and whose demands are unjust and unreasonable. The Govern incut has the power to squash this class, and it should be done promptly. I trust, also, that the people of New Zealand will remember that the Lahour Government is still in its infancy, but is growing in power, intelligence and confidence daily. The ills of the pernicious legislation passed Inprevious Governments for many years cannot be cured by the present one in a few months, nor can the Labour Government get back the millions of money squandered by the past Government without an atom of benefit to the workers.—l am, etc., A.E.A. Manawatu Heads, July 3, 1936.