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"LIKE COMMUNISM"
Lang Party's Objectives
MR. PARKHILL'S COMMENT
SYDNEY, Sunday.
"The Comonumist programme 'for a
Soviet Australia.' -ublished recently bears
a distinct resemblance to the policy thot
has been announced by tle Lang lFederal
party," stated thile Postmaster-General
(Mr. Arehdale Parkhill) loot night.
The first acts of a revolutionary Gov
ernment, according to the Communist
manifesto. he said, would include "the
expropriation, without compensation, of all
banks, insurance companies, large enter
prises, railhays and big department stores,
and their converosion ito socialist pro
perty. Between this method of securing
control of the comn inity's property and
the Lang-Beasley mnethod of ulning suclalisa
tion of credit as the "lkey" to the socialisa
tion of industry, there was not muchl dif
ference. Mr. Lang lhad stnated this obvious
fact by dleclaring, at the Sydney, Labour
Conference, in February, 1933, "If you
want to go thlrough a door, yoOll must have
the hey first. Socialisation of credit is
the lkey."
Ir. Parkhlill added that Mr. Lazzarini,
Mr. Lang's candidate in Werriwa, had
stated tle oisition inmore emphlatically
when lie declared tflit a Federal Labour
Government would, within six months,
pass legislation to close all tihe private
banks. With the destruction of tle pri
vate banks it would naturally follow that
all freedom of enterprise in industry
would be destroyed, too, thus leading to
the culmination of thie objective nimed by
the Communist Dictator. the late NI.
Lenin, who bad stated that the first step
in the direction of Communism must be
such measures as the nationalisation of the
banks, which would enable business and in
dustry to be "tied land and food."
There wass anotlher point in the Com
mniist programme whlich might have been
lifted' holus bolus from the Lang Plhin;
tlhat was the cancellation of the pulblic
debt. The Coimmunist programme called
for the annulmhnent of all debts owed to
"capitalists and landlords." This was
merelys a blnt hwas of repeatinlg what
Mr. Lang'o mouthpiece (Mr. Beasley) hail
usromised in his policy speech--the writing
dlown of all sorts of debts. iv wavins the
wandl of credit control. This aind wnas
really a blhldgeon, luowever, and the bIrutal
way in which it could be used to dispos
sess tihe oarners of ovingos and property
of all bIush0 had beeii ilhutratel by tfe
Soviet in Ruissia. where iindustrial workers
and farmers no longer possessed anythiig
by rigtht. but awere merely serfs of the
Suviot.
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