POLITICAL SOCIALISM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2256, 30 July 1908, Page 2

POLITICAL SOCIALISM.

TO BE COMBATED. LIBERAL AND OPPOSITION COALESCENCE URGED. [Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, July 29. At the meeting of the Canterbury Employers’ Association, .which was bold to-night, and which avas very largely attended, u vigorous discussion took place on the necessity for combating Socialism, and the following motion was carried unanimously : “That .in the opinion of this meeting of the Canterbury Employers’ Association political Socialism is rapidly becoming a menace to the welfare of Ibo communitythat t'he continuance of the relations between the dominant political party and Hie Socialistic section of the Labor Party, would he detrimental to the individual enterprise on which the progress of the country mainly depends, and it is therefore necessary that the .Liberal Party should be rendered independent. of the support of tlie political •Socialists; that as there is Ho longer any essential difference in principle between the non-Socinlistic Liberals and tlie Opposition. Hie interests of the .Dominion, as distinguished from the interests of the two opposing parties, demand that the fusion should take place; that the attention of (the leaders of the two parties be directed to these facts, 'and that they be informed that this organisation will at the general election subordinate all party considerations to the advancement of the objects herein outlined.”