"OUR RIGHTS AS ELECTORS"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 238, 2 July 1919, Page 8

"OUR RIGHTS AS ELECTORS"

LABOUR FEDERATION'S DEAIAND "Wo shall soon hare an opportunity of exercising our rights' us electors," f<vys the executivo of the New Zealand Federation of Labour in its annual report. "We must, insist that the War Regulations be removed, so that we may express our views in a democratic manner without being 'made criminals and thrust into prison i'oi exercising our rights as a free people. Those who have been so shamelessly' and brazenly exploitins the people during the last four years will emtcavuur to defeat the legitimate aims of the wage-earning class's by lactics with which we are familiar. F/f----forls will bo made to ambush the industrial organisations ami k-ad them into industrial strife with n view to diverting liie people's wrath from those who have been abusing their pwrer as tools of the monopolists of the .Umpire,

"It behoves us, therefore, lo carefully watch every move made by our oppmr enls, avoid all intolerance in our own rank's, ami organise for nil we are worth, so as to enable ins lo not only withstand the clforts of our enemies, 'but to triumph over them, oust them from office, and put in their places a deal) Administration, which will safeguard and promote lite general welfare of (lie Kimmunitv at large." The conference decided to co-operate with the Laboul I'artv in urging the Government lo repeal'the War Regulations and lift all war restrictions at on?e,