DIRECT ACTION
ME. SEMPLE'S CREED EXPLAINED. "I am not a direct actionist," said Air. R. Sample (Wellington South) in tho House of Representatives last night. "I don't believe in using direct action. Thn hcnourablo member for Wellington Suburbs smiles, but I am not going to deal with him just now. I don't care what he thinks." Mr. B. A. Wright (Wellington Suburbs): L am not saving nuytmng, Mr. Semple: I saw- your griu. . . .• I don't believe in dirict action as tho only ••vcapon that should be use.d by tho working wen to adjust (heir grievances. I would not be in this institution i£ I believed that. But. 'wherever the working people are engaged in a fight against the dollar, then I shall be with the working people, whether it be in the industrial field or "any other' political battle in which thny are. engaged. A member:. KigJit or wrong!' ■ Mv, Senipl*: Tile working man, when he is lighting against the power of wealth, is never wrong. It is the power of wealth that forces him e-ometimes to do things ho docs not care about. Wo are -not infallible, but, let mo say this: The evils that exist u.-day are responsible for the troubles (hat are so common right throughout tho world. .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 303, 18 September 1919, Page 4
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211DIRECT ACTION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 303, 18 September 1919, Page 4
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