THE CHILDREN'S VOTE
A statement was made by Mr. W. L. Barker, National candiate for Wellington East, at Seatoun last evening, that certain school teachers in Welling* ton were plying their children with questions upon the political opinions' of their parents.
A protest greeted this allegation, and a member, of the audience challenged it.
"You can say what you like" Mr. Barker retorted, "but I was approached by the parents of a child with a complaint about the matter. The teacher had asked the children 'which of you are Nationalists and which of you are Labour?' The kids had to hold up their hands. And when they got out" side afterwards the Nationalist kids were haranged by the Labour kids for the remainder of the afternoon,"
Mr. Barker added that he had been; criticised for having exposed the prevalence of Communism in our schools and colleges.
The speaker related an incident iri which a child had asked his teacher. "what is a Communist?" and who was. told that he was too young to know* "If he was too young to know what a Communist is," Mr. Barker added, "he was too young to participate in political. discussions at all, because Communism,. Fascism, and Socialism form the basis1 of all political discussion today."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 22
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212THE CHILDREN'S VOTE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 22
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