Australian Labor Party flyer for the 1943 federal elections
Australian Labor Party flyer for the 1943 federal electionsLABOR LOOKS BEFORE IT LEAPS
Labor insists that, while the immediate task is the successful prosecution of the war, attention must be given to the planning of our future so that we shall be in a position to honor our promises to those who bring us victory.
Labor visualises post-war reconstruction to be in the nature of a new social order based on democracy and the right of all men and women to enjoy the fruits of honest toil.
The war must be won. The peace must be won for the masses, the workers, the producers, the soldiers.
LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE
The experience gained from what transpired after the last war places an obligation on the Government to make absolutely certain that after the present war there will be no poverty and want.
To-day we are fighting for something different and something vastly better than what existed in pre-war days. The memory of the last depression is still fresh in our minds, and we must safeguard the people against another such calamitous happening.
The maintenance of the lives of mankind far transcends every other consideration - a fundamental truth that in the past has been completely ignored by the 'haves.' Labor is determined, so far as it lies within its power to determine, that out of the wreck brought about by the present war there will arise a world where men shall be free men in the fullest sense of the word, and shall have that economic security which is their right.
We must have an orderly economic system to replace the unregulated and chaotic system which in the past brought in its train such abject poverty.
It is an affirmation that within the nation are all the essentials of prosperity; an affirmation that mass prosperity and national power are dependent upon the intensity with which the energies of the people are applied to the production of all the requisites of a rising social life - material, intellectual and moral.
UNLESS THERE IS ORGANISED PLANNING NOW, CHAOTIC CONDITIONS WILL RESULT WHEN WAR CEASES.
Avoid The Pitfalls of Peace
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