THE UNITED PARTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20966, 4 March 1930, Page 13

THE UNITED PARTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Mr Moss writes in your issue of February 25 /that never has there been a time when, it was more necessary to have an understanding between the United and Labour Parties. These parties, he says, have something in common, and both have a common eneniv in Reform. This is where I differ from Mr-Moss. Had the Reform Party joined up with the Liberal Labour Party in 1925 there would only be a few Socialist members to-aay. Never in the creation of cats would it do for the United Party to yield to the Labour Party. , Give it an inch and it will take an yard. Better to keep the Socialists down I

I would ask Mr Moss whether he has read Mr Neilsou’a letters ou private ownership and whether he believes in Mr Neilson s views. If s o. does he expect support from the sane electors? Would not the United Party have to give Labour some portofolios? Fancy Mr Holland as Minister of Lands! Would he hand over the land from the present owners to the Socialists? Were he Minister of Defence, after all that has happened in Samoa, how would it affect Samoa? If Mr Semple were Minister of Labour, would the workers be any better off than they have been under the present Minister, and under Ministers during the Reform term of office? If Sir Fraser became Minister of Justice, would ho do more for prison reform than the present or previous Government has’done? If Mr Moss himself were elected nest election and became-Minister of Finance a nice tot of Ministers we would have and all with Socialists’ views! My reason for mentioning Mr Moss as -Minister of Finance, is that I read a previous letter of his on taxation in fiance as a solution of unemployment, ft is not taxation, however, that solved the unemployment problem in Franco Ihe problem has been solved by her because she is still maintaining a lar-e army and owns a powerful navv, and has LFg a lO - 1 ;*, 6 a,r u force - Has she not had to build up her towns that were destroyed during the war? Before tlm war, did her birth rate not decrease wo°rfd ha Vr hat ° f any , oti , ler nation In the world? Moreover, she lost hundreds of thousands of her manhood during the war Are these not two reasons why there i s a of men between the age of 16 and oO in France, and therefore no unemployment?—l am. etc.. February 28. ’ ' ¥sLL ™'