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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 4. May 4th 1949

Our System

Our System

What has this to do with the young people of Australia and New Zealand? To answer that we must find what capitalism brings to us, and a brief look at the world will give us the answer. In the USA police spies have recently been increased by 900. Latest unemployment figures are four million full-time and four million part-time. Attacks on those who would implement democratic principles are growing—even Truman's civil rights programme is being sabotaged in Congress. In Amsterdam, while there are 70,000 unemployed, while the meat ration has been reduced and while there is a serious spread in the influenza epidemic, huge sums of money are being spent on the campaign in Indonesia. In Canada 56 members of the Seamen's Union are in jail for appealing to strike-breakers not to work—this apparently is classed as kidnapping under Canadian law. If the employers in Canada wish to force striking seamen to work, they turn boiling steam hoses on them. Under Marshall Aid, Austria is receiving three ex-army knapsacks each for every man, woman and child. It is thought that food would be preferable, but it is not supplied.