GOVERNMENT’S POLICY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 154, 30 May 1940, Page 9

GOVERNMENT’S POLICY.

RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT. Per Pi •ess Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 29. An appeal to the Government to take “drastic action” against certain bodies and organisations which, it was a! leged. were stirring up trouble to embarrass the Government, was embodied in the following resolution adopted at a meeting of employees of Addington railway workshops: “That this meet ing of Addington workshop employees calls upon the Government to take drastic action against certain Farmers’ Union officials and branches of Chambers of Commerce, including junior branches, and newspapers, who are stirring up trouble to embarrass the Government in the carrying out of its duty to the community. We further view with alarm the wide space given to certain organisations and their leaders in the daily Press for their deliberate ‘hack door’ methods of attacking the Government under the guise of alleged patriotism and extra war effort. We wish to point out that if this subversive propaganda is allowed to go on, it will, in our opinion, definitely and very soon cause trouble in New Zealand which the Government would find hard to combat. We further demand that the Government should not acquiesce in the campaign for a Coalition Government by profiteering organisations, as the people in this country have given a mandate to the present Government in no uncertain manner at the general election 18 months ago and a coalition would he a betrayal of the electors. In our opinion the present propaganda should be suppressed, as it is only an attempt by war profiteers to get busy again.” The meeting also adopted a resolution expressing misgivings at what, it claimed, was an attempt on the part of some people to stampede the Government into unnecessary interference with social and industrial conditions. “We are definitely of the opinion that the policy followed by the Government is the correct one, and the one designed to give the greatest possible satisfaction as well as creating the fullest war effort, and is such as warrants full ’ and unqualified support by all sections. The ‘scaremonger’ is, in our opinion, the real enemy of the people in the present hour of crisis, and one deserving of the severest censure and condemnation,” the resolution added.