THE LABOUR PARTY.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19463, 31 December 1934, Page 7

THE LABOUR PARTY.

A CHANGING ORDER. MESSAGE FROM THE LEADER. AUCKLAND, Monday. “With the dawn of the New Year should come an awakened social consciousness ’ which will destroy for cverethe mistaken idea that the spectre of poverty among plenty is natural and Inevitable,’’ states the Leader of the Opposition, Mr M. J. Savage, in a Neyv Year message. “ There are signs on every hand that such a consciousness is * awakening, and that the changing order is destroying the foundation upon which rests the idea that periods of industrial depression are bound to come in the natural order, of things,’’ the message proceeds. “It Is now becoming apparent to all that the modern problem of poverty Is created by man and can be abolished by him In accordance with his ability to "produce and equitably distribute the necessaries of life. The problems of; production have already been solved. The problem of distribution Is the only real problem that remains with us. “With almost unlimited possibilities in the various spheres of wealth, production and distribution, and the right to be masters in our own household, we should enter upon the New Year with stout hearts and a determination to mould for ourselves a grander destiny than has been the af any other race. It can "be accomplished without doing an injustice to anyone. It cannot be neglected without inflicting previous injury to thousands of our own flesh and blood. The call of the New Year will be for recurits who are willing to serve their fellows.”