OFFICIAL LABOUR PARTY.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 624, 15 April 1921, Page 4

OFFICIAL LABOUR PARTY.

(To the Editor.) Sir,- — I read with interest your article of a week ago upon the Bolshevik policy and convictions of the New Zealand Labour Party leaders. I am glad to see a newspaper that has the courage to consistently ex-'’* 1 pose the danger to the community of these intellectually unbalanced fanatics—“ the jackals of the Labour movement.” I had just finished reading the article referred to whilst travelling by train from Pukekohe to Mercer, when into the carriage where I was seated reeled a drunken man, He was a tall young fellow of British nationality, but had features' that were woefully weak in the manly qualities inherent in the men of our race—honour, chivalry and “heart.” He had a large bottle of whisky in one pocket and the other bulged with printed circulars or pamphlets. These weighted pockets swung grotesquely backwards and forwards as he swayed by the door, where he began to address the passengers upon the value and necessity to tthe world of labour and, naturally, of the labourers. He advanced to the attack of capital, its oppression and privileges, and so naturally, to capitalists and their class, including anyone who possessed more worldly goods, comforts, or learning than his labourer-neighbours. The labourer' was valuable: the others useless, nay, injurious burdens. And so on. till, dribbling and mouthing, he came to a stop and went round -the' carriage shaking hands with each “brother” and “sister.” One woman had the courage to turn her back deliberately to him and so set an example that the men might have well followed instead of weakly smiling and shaking his hand. As the passengers nearly all alighted at Tuakau he called out as the last one passed, him: “May your shadow never grow less and may some other lucky chap kill you before I have to. That’s my best wish.” ' With a leer at those left in the carriage he passed through to the next. Now, sir, I have writ tea this to show your readers that the Bolshevik horror is not confined to faraway Russia, but is working in dark ways, and surev in our very midst here in the Waikato. Let every man watch what he says or does in support of the Official Labour Party with its one-class horror-policy of Bolshevism.—l am, etc.,