LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 225, 22 August 1945, Page 4

LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Like most of his crowd your correspondent Mark Tozer can write nothing constructive but merely iu- > dulges in hair-splitting.- Judging by his J letter, it is only too painfully obvious that it is he who badly needs to do, the hard thinking. For his consolation I would like him to know it was because I did some hard thinking as ' well as hard work years ago that I got on. It is because of hard thinking that, in concert with a great many more, I can see the folly of the present day Socialist regime. Why does Mr Tozer not keep to the point in his letter? Of course the bulk of the pioneering | was already done 20 years ago—a j schoolboy, knows that—and Mr Tozer knows perfectly well the point I was making. It seems to suit him to feign non-observance; or is it another display of the Socialist ignorance I referred to ? I did not say "slogging from daylight to dark'' was freedom. I said, and repeat, that that is what New Zealand's pioneers (lid. and also what I did. and that is I why they got on, years before I came I here, and that is why I got on. This is lin contrast to the laziness in evidence today: it is in contrast to tho Labourites' policy of "do as little as you can for as much as yon can." Of course everyone knows this is a mechanical ago, and we are all thankful for labour-saving devices, hut this fact; in no way affects anything in my letter, unless it is that it lends weight to my contention. All the more shameful is the display of unrest and selfishness among certain sections of the workers, and the frequency of strikes wirh , all the modern machinery ami laboursaving devices these men work with. Seeing our friend is so dull of understanding, I repeat here again that, one of tho most important points in my letter was to emphasise the Labourites' determination to destroy personal ambition and incentive and the will to get on—the very qualities our forefathers bad who enjoyed liberty and genuine freedom. If those men were industrious enough to want to buy a farm j . or start a little business with their hard- I earned savings, well, they could do n, and get credit for it. Now, under the Socialist, order, you don't ! They will d<- I cide for you whether you will buy that | j farm or that business: they will think | for you, and you will just be a nice plastic robot in their hands. Freedom, did you say, freedom? Where? Kcmein her, the inexorable principle is this: "If a man will not work neither shall he cat," and in so far as the Socialists tr> j to reverse that order and give wealth to j the loafer and the waster, the strikers and the shirker, just there are they the country's wreckers. —Yours, etc.. j HARD WORK.