THE "USEHOLD."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18417, 25 June 1925, Page 8

THE "USEHOLD."

MR JORDAN GETS HIS WIGGING.

(srECIAL TO "the prbss.")

WELLINGTON, June 2-i

Inferring to Mr Jordan's condemnation of the "usehold" land policy, the official organ of the Labour Party, tho "Worker," says:— • "If Mr W. J. Jordan, M.P., had been in the Labour Party for twenty or thirty years he would not lave made the mistake of thinking that its policy was condemned and rejected because one effort had failed to convinco the electorate of its value. There is not a principle in the Labour Partys policy which has not been consistently rejected in New Zealand at every election since 190-5. If those who formed the Partj- in that year and the others who followed closely after them had taken election decisions on the pointas to whether there should be' a Labour Party in New Zealand polities, we would never have polled 150,000 votes at the elections two years ago, and elected seventeen members of Parliament. Indeed, there would never havo been a Labour Party, and probably Mr Jordan would never have been elevated to his present exalted position. We think Mr Jordan' 3 pronouncement against the Party's land policy highly condciunablc, and the method by which it was communicated to the public wholly foreign to what is calculated to serve' the best interests of the movement. When Mr Jordan has been a member of the Party a litth longer, lie will doubtless be conscious of the fact that its policy is determined by its conferences. and cannot 1)0 changed or withdrawn except by proceedings provided by its constitution. It will never consent to be made the convenience of a single member of Parliament."