THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 7

THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Sir, —Mr. P. Fraser, national secretary and treasurer of the Social Democratic Party, gives "an unqualified contradiction to the assertion made by Mr. R. A. Wright, Reform candidate for Wellington Suburbs, to tlie effect that the Social Democratic Party of New Zealand bad affiliated body whoso were in Geimany." In view of this" denial by Mr. Fraser, I must draw your attention to the fo{lowing extracts taken from the "Constitution of the United Federation of Labour" and the "Constitution and platform of the Society Democratic Party of .New Zealand." These two constitutions are embodied in one pamphlet, bound and numbered, from page 1 to page 31, consecutively. On page 13, Article XV, the constitution of the W.F.L. says:— "1. The United Federation of Labour shall bo allied to the Trades Union movement throughout the world. It shall become affiliated with the International Secretariat of Berlin, the headquarters of the International Trades Union movement, and it will especially enter into the closest possible relations with the Trades Union movement in all countries within, or bordering on, the waters of the Pacific." Turning to page 19 of the same pamphlet, under the heading "Constitution and Platform of the Social Democratic Party of New Zealand," clause 18, I find the following:— - Hie Social Democratic Party therefore calls upon all the workers of New Zealand to forthwith enrol themselves in the ranks of the United Federation of Labour on the industrial field and in the ranks of the Social Democratic Party on the political field." Clause 6, on page 72, provides that the two bodies can work iu conjunction in publishing newspapers, books, and pamphlets of general interest to both organisations.