COMMUNIST SUPPORT
LABOUR AND BY-ELECTION “The world is on the march,” declared Mr. D. Mcßae, Auckland Communist leader at a meeting in the Methodist Hall, Maeroa, last night. Great progressive movements had developed overseas, particularly in Europe, Mr. Mcßae said. The post-war world would not return to pre-1939 conditions. New Zealand had to decide to keep in step with world events. In the political arena there was only one force likely to do that, he said, and that was the Labour Party. For that reason the Communists would work for the return of Mr. Barrell at the byelection.
“The Nationalists have nothing to offer with their out-dated and outworn cry of return to free competitive enterprise,” Mr Mcßae added. Leading industrialists overseas recognised that a greater measure of planning and control would be necessary if the problems of the postwar world were to be solved. Free competitive enterprise could not solve the problem of organising for total war, he said, and it could not solve the gigantic problems of reconstruction.
The Labour Government was progressive, the speaker concluded, and as long as it continued so the Communists would support it. Mr. J. Mackie, a member of the Waikato district committee of the Communist Party, also addressed the meeting.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22612, 18 May 1945, Page 4
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