REPARATIONS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 13

REPARATIONS

The banker holds the key toy which the lOckecJ-up means of production can be 1 berated; he can allow or forbid the• production of wealth; when he allows it he fancies imiibeJi Lht> actual producer. Out.of this jumble arises the i-ogue's phrase ; 'Reconstruction of Europe.*'

The complicated negotiations at Brussels, Paris, Genoa, mam. different stages in a confused process or findiVipr out what to do cnliea "searcuJig pockets," " "-exploring avenues." and the rest of the thieves , kitchen talk. In 'the various efforts the bankers veered round from enmity to friendship toward Germany, but their aim has always been the same; to fasten on Germany a tribute of interest that will absorb all her surplus wealth. . . .

In all these schemes and negotiations the Government plays lh.e part of agent for the moneylenders. The public interest is not represented.-or mentioned.

The bankers are, trying to reconstruct Capitalism, bat Capitalism was cot constructed and cannot be reconstructed. If all their plans coula be. fulfilled, the one certain result would be more unemployment in this country. Tlie whole question of tho continued existence of Capitalism may arise out of reparations.— J. I* IKaaon, in London "Justice," 27/7/22.