SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 5

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

(To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir,—Because I love humanity and desire to see men free and happy, it is the saddest sight to see people herding together and depending on leaders. It is only by individual struggle and the elimination off fear that man can attain freedom. There is no other .way. Your correspondent, Mr. Pearson, has distorted what 1 have said in my previous letter. I have not sorted out the relief workers for special also, I am not attacking individuals, hut ideas. Therefore I maintain that the. Legion, Labor Party, and the industrial unions fail to meet the. immediate needs of the people. None of them have any ideas that can be applied scientifically through the present productive mechanism. Like the Legion, the Relief Workers’ Union use the same vague generalities regarding future action. Because the Prime Minister and certain officials say encouraging and courteous remarks, this is put down (o something really being done. Do encouraging remarks from officials feed and clothe the people? Regarding that balance mentioned by Mr. Pearson, l should like to know what he really means. The only balance that can really satisfy is that every individual shall have full purchasing power. To exult the few crumbs that arc thrown to the relief worker leads to stagnation, a lack of individual effort. Why are, not the public allowed to know ' about the many matters that have, been amicably settled? Perhaps they are. so ephemeral that they are not worth mentioning? Mr. Pearson says that the. relief workers are combined for the primary purpose of denlinu: in hulk form with those daily difficulties, and matters of the future are momentarily a. second feature, hut not lost sight of. The future is yet to ho revealed, and when the time is ripe for concerted action, on constitutional lines —and so on. What windy, unsatisfying stuff all this is. The difference between the Douglas social credit organisation and the Relief Workers’ Union does not concern me, because I do not

belong to the former. However, if the relief workers are willing, I am perfectly willing to address them and explain my views in detail,—Yours, etc., G. H. IIIGNKTT.