JUST SOPER QUISLINGS

Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1948, Page 4

JUST SOPER QUISLINGS

. . . #» — — - Mr. Maher Bitterly Attacks Militant Uniomsts , , — \ . • Nothing ihore than fif th . columnists, wreckers and super quislipgs were terms applied *by Mr, J, . J. Maher, M.P. for Otaki, to some of New 25ealaPd's trade union leaders, when speakin"- last * night- at the- annual general meeting of the Levin branch of the, National Party. The gravest . problem f aping the couptry today was the continued iawlessness of many of the leaders of unions, said Mr. Maher. No adjective was too strong to apply to peoplej 'who topk such an attitude: While one section of the country was responding to the' aPPeal , to produce t-o help the Mother Cbun•try, and were. establishing . all. time .records in .primary production, another section . was doing its utmost to delay dozdns of shipS and using strong • power to hpld the country to ransom and blu'dgeon their countrymen into breaking the

laws of the land. "The cool-stpres are full of goods and men are walking bff the wharves, leaving' ships waiting to be loaded. Aid for Britain! "Politics are ^not in this," .continued Mr. Maher. . "If the Prime Minister and his Party took a %rm stand against these super quislings, he would have the backing of all the goc'd people of this country, who, want 'these chaps put.in their place. . " >"The • Prime Minister and his Cabinet cannot jetre&t fron^. the situation. If he's not. game to stand by the laws he's formed, he's only got "one duty and that is to

t ' * V hand ;; his,.; resighation: t)v.to ' ;Jhe iGPKpiinQFT.Genb^ai and; leijMs. liblland- ; gpvern the pountjy, , ncnt. fpp ojie sectipiv ; but. Jor;;all.vsp^tApnsJ jjf th;e community." - " ..) . ,i"t ■ . was "jWell-knownj . ths average worker in Me^^Zealarrd.wiH a decent fellow and n-bt" an extreni=ist, continued Mr. Maher. They Shouidti!he-;.iiven the? ippppr^unii-y conduc ting:-a-aeoret b all'o ti * > Same. Show, New Actors Re \B vviiig ' the reeent '• spi^ad of I Corhinunism. iii' Europe, Mr. Maher said that parliamentary institutions throughout the world were in very grave danger. Free. governments Were on the defensive. Before' the last war Mussolini and Hitler were the main actors. Now it was Molotov and Stalin, only Stalin moved much quicker than Hitler. He was glad to see that the United States was taking notice of the situation. "Great Britain is bled white and it is up to the United States to come in and do what she shbuld have done in the first World War and the second." ' It was up to New Zpalhnd^to give Britain all the'-fbb'd she could. At present it was a .sham., ."When Britain is relying on 'its coal to make goods to produce ;dofiars, we, who have plen.ty'of cpai; af e' asking. •her fbr-18,000 tons and' in ' the next breath- reducing the hpurs of'.work [ for coal .miners. Is that aid for Britain? we 'might as. .well . stalt impbrting mutton and lamb."'; . The Communists were now interferihg with the highly skilled technicians, in the country, as was shown by the walk^out at Mangakino of important engineers. Bargaining with the Communists was what the Government was doing. Thirteen thousand sheep had been left without food or. water' at Petone and Ngahjauranga recently. Why; was that allowed? It was 'surely a case- where the Society for the Preventioii* of Cruelty to Animals should have stepped in. Concluding, Mr. Maher warned that it was up to the people to see that Communists .should be reg'arded in the same light.as a bad apple in a case of apples, and shofild be eliminated before they affected the WhPle country. '.'We should see fhat they do not interfere with our .democratic rights, ',or. take advanjbage of present eosditions to further -their Communistic principles."