Speeches by the only member of the Communist Party ever elected to an Australian parliament "Our programme provides first of all that every able-bodied citizen, both brain and manual, shall be guaranteed full-time useful work. Secondly it asks for a substantial improvement in wages and working conditions, particularly for the workers in the lower-paid industries. Thirdly it asks for a reduction in the hours of labour to enable the working class to reap to the full the advantages of the introduction of machinery and other labour-saving devices...." "But Socialism cannot be imposed upon the people by a minority. It is a movement in the interests of the vast majority and will come into existence only when a majority of the people want it and are organised sufficiently to obtain and maintain it. The Communist Party makes no secret of the fact that it stands for a Socialist Australia...in which the degrading spectacle of man's exploitation of man has no place, where all work for the good of all, where the function of the machine is to release man from labour and not to make a profit for the owner of the machine, where man freed from labour is at liberty to follow cultural pursuits, where the fear of want is banished and the law of the forest is at last no more"