TO FREE WORKING MEN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 12

TO FREE WORKING MEN

OBJECTIVE OF EEFORM PARTY

Contending that the main objective of the Reform Party is to free the working man from the political incubus put upon him by the Labour Party, Mr. Harold F. Johnston, the Reform candidate, stated at Eastbourne last night that the policy of the trades union leaders was to drag boys down to a level when they entered industry instead of allowing them to progress and become eligible for promotion.

Those who were carrying out such a policy were doing more harm to the country than anyone else in New Zealand, said Mr. Johnston. It was suicidal and wicked to allow a policy of thai character to be promulgated without quaking jvery effwt and sacrifice to dispel it and cast it out. "It is no use doing anything at all unless we cut out this cancer that i. eating at the vitals of the country." he remarked. "Our campaign is to fight it." i

Mr. Johnston said the people of New Zealand did not like the foreign policy of "go slow," and the only explanation he could offer for the maintenance of such a policy was that men of ability in the Labonr movement desired to keep

control over what they considered was the Labour Party of New Zealand. It was the duty of She Beform Party to free men from political serfdom. Mr. Johnston asserted that the Government had wasted money on unemployment relief schones that at best could but be described as palliatives, and maintained the problem could on1 - be met by improvement in trade and v.:\ increase in production.

At the conclusion of his speech, Mr. Johnston was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. Mr. C. 31. Andrews presided over the- meeting, vrhich w-'ts held in the Crown Theatre, and was largely attended.