SOCIALISATION SCHEME

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1933, Page 5

SOCIALISATION SCHEME

CANADIAN FARMERS’ MOVE ADOPTION BY CONFERENCE NATIONALISED CURRENCY WARNING BY MR. BENNETT * X By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Calgary, Jan. 17. Steps towards the achievement of a co-operative commonwealth were outlined and adopted by delegates of the United Farmers of Alberta at the annual convention. The scheme urges the nationalisation of currency and credit and the public ownership or the socialisation of all natural resources and industrial and distributive equipment essential to the welfare of society. The foreign policy is designed to secure international co-operation in trade, industry and finace and to promote world peace.

“No attempt to introduce a system of Soviet government in Canada will be tolerated,” Mr. R. B. Bennett, the Prime Minister, told a delegation of the National Committee of Unemployed Councils to-day. So far as any desire to institute any Soviet system, which the delegation evidently desired, was concerned, Mr. Bennett stated that six applications had been received to-day by the Minister of Labour (Mr. W. A. Gordon) from people who had been sent to Soviet Russia, asking that they be permitted to come back to Canada. There were many evidences, Mr. Bennett continued, that conditions in Russia were far different from those under which the delegation lived in Canada under liberty and decency.

Mr. Bennett told the. delegation that a system of non-contributory unemployment insurance would be introduced in Parliament by the present Government. The Dominion Provinces’ conference, which opened to-day, was considering another principle than the non-contribu-tory plan.