"ONE MAN ONE JOB"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22719, 4 May 1937, Page 16

"ONE MAN ONE JOB"

GOVERNMENT'S DILEMMA COMMENT BY MR. DOIDGE Addressing the women's organisation ox the National Party yesterday, Mr. f;. W. Doidge said that a Government which was sensitive to criticism would resent being reminded that many people were curious Concerning the operation of one of the oldest and most familiar planks in the Socialist Party platform—the principle of "one man one job." , "Immediately after the Government took office, Ministers launched an active campaign," said Mr. Doidge. "The worker who was prepared to do extra work for extra pay was told that he was n traitor to his class. When the campaign was at its height, I was impertinent enough to raise the issue of class distinction within the party. Was the humble toiler to be denied the right to do extra work for extra pay, while the political nabobs held as many paid jobs as they could lay hands upon'] 1 named several Party leaders who held anything up to half-a-dozen well paid jobs. "The result was a first, j-ate example of the value of free speech and a free press. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole Dominion was intrigued by the dilemma in which the Government found itself. Ministers dropped the principle like a hot brick. It has never been heard of from that day to this." A number of new members were enrolled at the meeting.