'Phone: F 1996. GLACIARIUM GOODWAY THE I C E SKATING RETREADS THE WORLD'S OLDEST 514B ELIZABETH ST. PASTIME (Opp. Victoria M arket). GUARANTEED Two Sessions Daily, 5 0 0 0 MILES. 3 and 8 p.m. Admission 2/2 Q uick Service. NEWTIMES Boots and Skates, 1/- pair. Vol. II. No. 30. MELBOURNE, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936. Every Friday, 3d New Zealand Labor's Great From time to time the New previously operated by the State Times has published accounts of Advances Department. "4. what has been done in the first ses- Guaranteed Prices: During the sion of New Zealand's first Labor first year after taking office the Ministry. For some weeks the Record Government will pay guaranteed Dominion Parliament has been in prices for all primary production. recess, but as it will reassemble in These prices will be fixed after a few days it may not be out of What Mr. Savage Promised—and negotiation with the representatives place now to summarise Mr. Sav- of each primary industry, and will age's performances to date and to be based on the average return to see how these square with the What He Has Done farmers over a period of, say, the promises he made in his pre-elec- past eight or ten years. Simul- regulation of foreign exchange trying to find markets for party will assist in writing and ad- tion manifesto. operations." taneously with this procedure the We shall quote the manifesto it- production, thousands of children ministering the following reforms into Labor party will negotiate trade self at some length: THE UNEMPLOYED. have been certified to be suffering the laws of the Dominion: agreements on a reciprocal basis from malnutrition and avoidable "1. State Control of Currency with the nations of the British THE PARTY'S OBJECTIVE The manifesto then went on to physical defects.. In addition "The objective of the Labor discuss various points raised in the and Credit: To ensure the maximum Commonwealth and other coun- to malnutrition, thousands of our utilisation of the resources of the tries for markets for the maximum party," it said, "is to utilise to the above clauses. On the question of people are inadequately clothed, maximum degree the wonderful re- unemployment it said this: — Dominion, the Labor Government will quantity of our primary products. "5. and housing accommodation is far make the Reserve Bank a completely Statutory Minimum Wages and sources of the Dominion— "The men and women today un- below normal health requirements. Salaries: (a) The immediate "First: For the purpose of re- employed are our fellow-citizens State-owned institution by the The remedy is to provide incomes purchase, at market rates, of the restoration of all wage and salary storing a decent living standard to who are out of work through no in return for service sufficient to cuts; (b), the institution of a those who have been deprived of fault of their own. They are en- shares now held by private persons, ensure that every man and every and thus ensure that the credit of the statutory minimum wage and salary essentials for the past five years. titled to employment at an adequate payment to all workers of a sum "Second: To organise an inter- living wage. Productive develop- nation shall be used for the benefit of all the people. sufficient to provide an adequate nal economy that will distribute the ment and useful work should be THE DAILY PRESS AND standard of living, such sum to be production and service in a way made available to all. Failing DEPRESSION. "2. Post Office Savings Bank: graded upward according to the that will guarantee to every person such employment, the men and The Labor party will safeguard the "Money is tighter." —"Herald" value of the extra skill, knowledge able and willing to work an income women should be paid sufficient to people's savings by extending the and experience of each worker. sufficient to provide him and his provide an adequate living standard finance editor, July 18. facilities of the Post Office Savings dependents with everything neces- "The banks' position is less liquid "6. National Health Insurance: for themselves and their depen- Bank and by removing the present The Labor Government will intro- sary to make a 'home' and 'home dents." compared with a year ago, and reflects restrictions on deposits. life' in the best sense of the mean- the tendency toward financial duce a national health insurance Discussing production and con- "3. Mortgage Corporation and State scheme to provide a health service ing of those terms." stringency as indicated by hardening Advances: The action of the sumption, Mr. Savage's policy of interest rates generally." for every contingency that may face MEANS TO BE ADOPTED. Government in setting up the Mort- speech laid this down: "The essen- —"Argus" financial editor, July 18. the ordinary citizen. After having "The quickest route to the ob- tial rules to safeguard the interests gage Corporation with private made a thorough examination of jective," the manifesto proceeded, ** shareholders has destroyed the of exporters and importers, pro- BUT NOT A WORD OF PROTEST the various reports from the British "is: — ducers and consumers, are: (1) AGAINST THE BANKERS' State Advances Department—one of Medical Association, the Hospital "(a) Guaranteed prices to far- That production must be allowed COMBINE, WHOSE MONEY the finest State activities that has Boards' Association and the special mers for the supply of primary to go on expanding so long as any MONOPOLY IS ALONE RE- operated in this or any other country. committee set up from the Public products sufficient to satisfy the important human wants remain un- SPONSIBLE FOR THE SUFFERING More than any other known Service to investigate a national internal and external requirements satisfied; (2) expansion of produc- OF OUR PEOPLE. agency, department or organisation health service, the Labor party of the Dominion. tion must not, as in the past, the State Advances Office, by its pledges itself to work in co- “ (b ) A statutory minimum wage threaten the producer with ruin; financing of land settlement, operation with the friendly so- or salary based on the sum re- woman can purchase for themselves (3) therefore, expansion of pro- and their dependents all the things development and house building, has cieties, the medical, pharmaceutical, quired to provide everything neces- duction must be related, through been responsible for a considerable dental and nursing professions for sary to an adequate standard of necessary for a decent living stan- the purpose of instituting a sound marketing machinery and in- dard." portion of the progress of the living. This minimum will be Dominion. With the reorganisation service that will: (a) Give every graded upward according to the comes, to simultaneous expansion of demand; (4) cut-throat competi- LEGISLATIVE POLICY. of the Dominion's production, citizen the right during ill-health to value of the extra skill, knowledge call in his own medical tion must be eliminated, and mar- The manifesto then set out in the State Advances Office or experience of the worker. could again provide facilities for practitioner, to consult and receive "(c) A national health and kets explored to find new demands detail the measures proposed in the services of specialists where for present and future production. order to apply the principles en- land development and house superannuation scheme to provide: building. The Labor Government required, and, by the reorganisation (1) Full medical, nursing and hos- "No more grave indictment has been unciated. "On the formation of the of our hospital system, to make levelled against the Government of first Labor Government," it said, will reorganise the Mortgage pital attention for invalids, together Corporation on lines similar to that available all other services that are with maintenance for themselves any country than the facts that "every elected member of the necessary for the restoration and and their dependents during ill- while the Government has been maintenance of health (b) extend health. This covers the blind, vic- the home nursing service so as to tims of miners' disease, and those Mr. Percy. F. G. Gordon, Chairman, provide all the attention necessary suffering from all accidents or Associated Banks of Victoria for mothers or other members of diseases, which prevent or restrict Dear Sir, families when it is not convenient for any person from working. (2) A It is really too bad that a gentleman in your position of exalted dignity should be so rattled as to feel it them to leave their own homes. The payment to widows to enable them necessary to rush into print in reply to an anonymous newspaper correspondent, and one who did not even Labor Government will provide the to maintain themselves and their mention the word "bank" at that. necessary laboratory facilities to children until the children are able For the benefit of many of our readers who will be unfamiliar with the episode, may we give the details: maintain the efficiency of the to earn their own living. (3) 1. Last Saturday, night, in a broadcast debate between Mr. John Cain, Labor M.L.A., and Mr. services, together with adequate Superannuation to all persons at Nelson, a Young Nationalist, the latter was incautious enough to admit that, while production could now payment to practitioners and others the age of 60 years. be looked upon as practically illimitable, the supply of money was very definitely limited. He did not, who carry out the work. The "(d) The reorganisation of our of course, indicate how or why. service will be available for every school, college and university sys- 2. The Melbourne ' "Sun” of Tuesday, in its "Fifty-fifty" column, contained the following letter, family.