SOCIAL CREDIT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4535, 11 February 1942, Page 8

SOCIAL CREDIT

MOVEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND DOMINION CONFERENCE The annual conference of the New Zealand Social Credit movement at Paraparaumu last week was attended by delegates from all over the Dominion and decided to carry on with a nation-wide organising campaign to build up support for the movement’s proposals. These proposals are for the purposes of war finance, post-war reconstruction and to meet the economic emergency conditions arising out of war-time difficulties. The conference was presided over by Mr R. O. C. Marks, M.A., D.C.M., who was re-elected National President ,for the coming year. Mr John Hogan, the Australian lecturer and economist, was appointed National Organiser. Among the principal resolutions carried by conference, were the following:—“This conference affirms its unswerving loyalty to our beloved King and Queen through the stress and strain of the present period of tribulation.” Debt Free Finance: “To allay apprehension and anxiety as to the future financial burdens to be borne by the people of New Zealand and to implement a full war effort, it is imperative that all national financial arrangements be on a debt-free basis.” Federal Union: “This conference views with alarm the spread of Federal Union and similar propaganda for the limitation and suppression of the sovereign rights and financial independance of the people of New Zealand. We affirm that the most harmonious relations between the nations will be possible only through the attainment of internal freedom and security for the individual, and that we owe it to our fighting forces to oppose any proposal to reduce our sovereign powers.” New Political Organisation: “That as the best way to provide the machinery to make the growing demand for Social Credit results politically effective, a separate political organisation be set up apart from the Social Credit Movement, provided that all candidates and members of Parliament be held responsible to their own electors.” Steps were taken for the establishment of a new political organisation on these lines, to be known as the Real Democracy Movement.