UNEMPLOYED SOLD?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 110, 26 May 1937, Page 10

UNEMPLOYED SOLD?

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Alleged Statement By Labour M.P. AN EMPHATIC DENIAL i

,By TeiezrKpb-

DUNEDIN, Lwt Night, ;fh« aUegation 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 Government was, made by Mr. F. McComish, representing the Dunedin branch of the Unemployed Workers' Movement, They had met three local members of Parliament and one of |he members had stated that he felt almost a hypocrite in asking the unemployed to be patient with the Government just a little longer, but he would make that request to. thexrn A second member had repeated the statements .of the first, but the third had said: "Fellow workers, you and I ' have been sold by the Labour Government. When I was. asked to stand for Parliament I was led to believe that Piarliament would be controlled by the rank and file of .the party. Instead of that we have it controUed by 11 men who are incapable of doing it." ".That statement," Mr. McComish added, "was made by one of the best Labour members in New Zealand." A voice: Dr, McMiUan. Mr. McComish: I won't deny it. "The whole thing is a tissue of inaccuracies," Dr. McMillan said when the statements made by Mr. McComish were referred to him by telephone at InvercargUl to-nlght. "Those statements were not made and I not only dissociate myself from them, but flatly dney .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 fhose alleged were ever made."