“GO SLOW”

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17759, 5 December 1929, Page 5

“GO SLOW”

BOYS IN INDUSTRY.

SHATTERING OF IDEALS.

DOING HARM TO COUNTRY. The shattering effect of Labour’s policy on hoys entering industry was dealt with by Mr. H. F. Johnston, Reform candidate for the Hutt seat, in His speech at Eastbourne, reports the Dominion.

Mr. Johnston referred to the money spent annually on education and the hopes parents had in the future of their sons. Boys topped their classes, left school, and entered industry, reacting to the school ideals of rising to the top. What was the result? The boy came under two classes of notice—that of the management, which marked him fc- promotion, and that of the trade union leaders, who marked him to come down to a level. The boy was put there and told that there lie must stay. People carrying out such a policy were doing more harm to the country than anyone else in New Zealand.

“Cut Out This Cancer.”

“It is suicidal aniFwicked to- allow a policy of that character to be promulgated without making every effort and sacrifice to dispel it and cast it out,” said the candidate. “It is no use doing anything at all unless we cut but this cancer that is eating at the vitals of the country. Our campagin is to fight it. In the end we are bound to win. i want to see it won this time in the Hutt Electorate.” (Applause.) The only explanation Mr. Johnston could offer for the maintenance of the policy of the men in the Labour movement who possessed ability was their desire to keep control over what they considered the Labour Party of New Zealand. They were frightened the working men might get loose and therefore were imposing om them the political serfdom from which it was the duty of the Reform Party to free them. Membership of the Reform Party was open to the working man who if he had the ability, industry’, and desire, would have the opportunity of being a candidate for Parliament'. The main cbjecttive of the Reform Party was to free the working man from the political incubus that had been put upon him, (Applause.) The people of New Zealand did not like the foreign policy of “go slow,” and had the wife of the English Chan-, cellor of the Exchequer recently, when Mr. Snowden was struggling with reparation problems, read to him. Labour’s “Go Slow,” instead of, as she did, Kipling’s “If,” England would have been at the bottom the sea as far as a proper allocation was concerned. (Laughter and applause.)