Freedom of Speech
«ANE LABOUR.
fciir, — -While Mr P. Fraser is busy Ktlvocating free speech for everybody tliere aro tradcs-uuion leaders discussings ways aiid means for prevent#ug anything but Ihe bocialist side of the story beiug told to the people. As a liiatler of i'act% I have reason to believe that pJans are already being formulatfifl with tho object of preventing any Opposition statements being dissemiuated when the eleetion figlit is on. This mav sound fautastic, bir, but tliere is a good deal of fire behind thc smoke, and if tho public conscionce is not aroused we will lind a boviet-like stranglehold uju every -form of free expression not in lino v.itli the dootrines of Labour. The Cabinet may say that they do not know anything of this, but referenc.es liave already been made in trades-union journals that are not pubiicly eirculateil, and sinco then plans have been discussed and, 1 undenstaud, aro now waiti ng the, approval of thc "hoads. " Wake, Up, New Zoaianders. — Yours, etc..
Napier, July 28, 1937.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 3
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