ELECTION NOTICES. ~~ — y"A GENTLE HINT" VOTE OUT THE REDS! / rr=~ —7 —! ' : (1)/ Because a party that would not help to fight for New Zealand when the country was in danger has no ' L®ftH /class) I right to call itself a New Zealand party. , ; . fllpll? rL, ($) Because it stole the name it goes by from the old "New Zealand Labour Party," which stood for the x/' 1 S nationalism which the present party denies. ' • ' : y (3) | Because it asks the electors to vote for its candidates on.-the. platform presented and keeps hidden the SlpL j£\ 7 1 y \ I fact that its platform is subject to alteration and amendment at each annual' conference of dele- | gates. The electors are, therefore/beingasked tosign..ablank cheque which the Labour Party's <Tf/ ' conference, outside of Parliament, will afterwards fill as it pleases. //jwf ( v Because it follows the line of camoiiflageand deceit to the extent of obscuring all regard for principles. / J candid£lt : es ex P ress moderate views or revolutionary according to the district and people tl'iey IS\ '111 Because its politics are flagrantly dishonest. Its objective declares plainly for socialism and its vim l!!™ f I mill!M (®) Because the party's candidates, if elected, would not be the representatives of the people who elected :|i !§> jl 11 fff/ them, but will be answerable only to the conference-of their own party. |llf j|J Because though the party's platform says they stand for a "citizen army on a voluntary basis," they IMMr ' nov, 'h ei ' e affirm that such army shall be used for purposes of national'defence. Delegates at 1 lilr '!m llmnlh, * ast con^erence ma( * e qnite clear that what they meant by a "citizen army" was a class army ffiltll 'b - for purposes of confiscation and revolution. 1 • fill W J ( 8 ) Because, whilst the party's constitution admits into membership industrial unions and federations, it denies any responsibility for the acts of such industiial bodies. ISSL\ nT Because it pretends to be opposed to the methods of "direct action" and "go-slow strikes," but Mlllt\\ I " excuses the action of those who carry them out on the ground that "it is necessary," just as lli I V I Germany excused her act of destroying her treaty to respect Belgium's neutrality on the ground Itljli lIH I 1 \1 Because it claims the right of free speech for its own candidates and its supporters deny the right of II 11111* \\ free speech to others, by acts of bullying and rowdyism, where they can get away with it. /I \ Because its pose of purity and professions before the electors that it will not indulge in personalities wM/k = ::jl::| l and abuse is mere hypocrisy, as its leading exponents on many occasions resort to the vilest abuse flggf I;" 1' ® I ( 12 ) Because where it puts forward any reasonable proposals it shows itself entirely unfit to carry them ' iff jmffl wIIIa I into practical effect, .with due regard to sound finance and the necessary stability of our institullß ' • Because it praises the Liberals who are dead—Grey, Ballance, and Seddon—and lies about those W h°l a!' 6 sa^'" 1 S tllafc Ward, Macdonald, Wilford, and others, have clone nothing for the (14) Because it refuses to credit the Reform Party with any good acts, though its own members voted for 1 a number of measures that Mr. Massey's Government has passed. (15) Because it pleads for the conscientious objectors who recognised no duty to their country, and, at the i aweo /at same me ' di s fr' anc hi ses an ,Y nian for'six years from standing as a Labour Party candidate, WW'(jjLPVtLK-jrj who has conscientious objections to its present policy or platform. * i dj. c i*j i Rfl tdi j i.l n II J J • p, , 4(lf r . ( 16 ) Because it is a party'inspired by the wild and cunning spirit of revolutionism, and its more moderate .Labour ar y Candidate,. Mr. T.Bloodworth, Parnell, addressing the Electors, said: If Labour is , members are the mere servitors of the spirit that guides its movements. It has absorbed the vile prevented expressing itself politically and constitutionally, then Labour will express itself in some ' opportunism of the I.W.W. school of revolutionism and its spokesmen will profess anything, be .l . jr .1. i ... cc , - anything, and attempt anything with the sole object of securing power to be used later in creating other way. If that happens the middle class will suffer most and longest. a state founded on the bas ' is of g om^lun i s tic ownership under industrial union, direction and' "Give me your Vote, or I'll introduce you to my little friend and his persuader." N z WELFARE league (Publishod by nrrangomont for tlio N.Z. Welfaro League)
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 16
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786Page 16 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 16
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