LABOUR AIMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 79, 29 December 1919, Page 4

LABOUR AIMS

NO WISH FOR LIBERAL RECRUITS. Air. H. Holland, M.P., spoke to a somewhat sparse audience in the Paramount Theatre last evening on "The Elect ions from the Labour Party's Point of View." Mr. Holland talked of his own election fiElit. and he was rather bitter in his attacks on Wellington and other newspapers which had opposed him. He denied vehemently that his oppsnent was the miners' candidate, and minted figures to show (lint the miners had supported the Official Labour candidate,' giving him a majority of some 1300. which had been milled down to about IrtOO in some of tho business centres. He declared that for tJio purnose of defeating Labour Sir Joseph Ward had been willing to accept the assistance of the friends of Mr. Massey and Mr. Howard Elliott in fiuller, anil in other seats whpre Labour candidates were onposed. The Liberal Party, he sn id. belonged to the dead past, and would never again be a serious force in the politics of this country. He said other hard things about the Liberal Party, expressing the strongest indignation against those members of the party, including Sir Joseph Ward, who had voted with Mr. Massey against the Labour Party (luring last session of Parliament. One of the measures ho spoke of vns'thn Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Bill. His opinion was that "nobody worth a continental to the Labour Party" would lie allowed in future to enter this country. For himself and h : « colleagues ho claimed that no better f»»ht had ever been put up by a handful of men in anv British Parliament than hnd been put up by the Labour five last session. Next session there would bo eight members, and thev would put un a belter fight. Tho Liberals would e : ther go over to Mr. Massey or would drop out of,politics altogether. He wou'd not welcome anv of them into the labour Party "T don't know n member of the L'bcral Partv." lie said, "who would he a" aciuii«ili"n to (lie Labour Party." Mr. Holland urged that the organisation for next election should begin at once.