FLAT DENIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 8

FLAT DENIAL

■ALLEGEI),;STA.TEMENT^ M.P. AND UNEMPLOYED I (By Telegraph—Press Association.l •.,'. ' - DUNEDIN, May 25. . '/AnVallegation that .Dr..D. G.,McMillan, M.P.,- had stated that the Unemployed as well'as-others :in the community ■ had , been sold by the Labour Government1 was made by Mr.' F. McComish, president of the Dunedin branch of the Unemployed Workers' Movement. V ;'". The /br/anch, /Mr.', McComish. said, had-metr the. thrSe, local members oi Parliament. . One of. them 'had statedthat' he ,felt almost a/hypoCrite in asking/the .unemployed.to ,be .patient /with the Government"'just, a,.'little- Joriger, .but"'-he' would make' '•-.that- request, to them. •..-: The , : secqnd ,M:P.; had -repeated the: statements' of, the 'first, : but:i/:the third had said:'"Fellow workers', you and I have been sold by the Labour. Government. When 11 was, asked to stand for Parliament I was led 'to believe that Parliament would, be controlled by the rank and file of .the party. Instead of that, we have it controlled by 11 men who are incapable of doing it." "That statement,'" Mr.' McComish added, "was. made by brie of the best. Labour'members in New Zealand." .' Ai voice: Dr. McMillan. ; , ' '". Mr.. McCom'ish: 1.-; won't deny it. ~:: When" the-.■■statementsI.'made- by Me-. McCbmislr were, referred:tp"him by telephone at:>lnverc'argill:tonight, ptl McMillan. ":■ Is^id: ; : ;; / "Those r"statements: were not niade arid I /not/bnly dissociate. myself. ; from,, them :but'-'flatly-deny that I said anything 'of the kind. "We have not met the unemployed for months, not since January, I think," he added, "and no statements resembling those alleged were ever made. 11