PARLIAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1923, Page 3

PARLIAMENT

far •rar-KoPAi’i! i’kii ritKo.< assoc) •. nos. (•TSiON (!l! A\ Ki.Ki Ti !>;. U'KI.I.I.MiTON. {•<■!> 11. Tie Hnfse niei at li o'clock when tile debate oil the Adi I ivsx- i u-K i.p ly was resumed by Mr llnrii-. who said lhe lesson of the election wax ilia! neither the Liberals nor Lab.air bad ivt eiv(ai a mandate from the (ample, and there was only two alternatives to the posit ion. which had arisen : —(I) I lie fusion of the moderate sections ot the House: or t'J) another general election. The issue put to the people last December mis Constitutional Government or llevolut ioliarv Sock !ism : and !. ■- tweon the plat lor ins of lh !.literals and the It dormers it is suicidal P Eiev should remain a|iart. i 1 the Liberals and Reformers continued to tig l ' l each oilier Labour would be ill power in three years, and it wa - th" duly ol , . o-v patriotie man to lake the neees,'Ci v steps so as in j>ri vent siicli a d's- ... occ. The alternative to a fusion was ~ >,,ern! election, which no one want- !. Another appeal to the people v.-ouhl probah.lv not give any parl\ :■ absol c i.e majority. 'I herd ore. lie i.in omvd a. fusion as the way out of the present tangle. A [KM IS Ell FOR WESTI.ANI). WELLINGTON. Feb. 11. Ah- O’Brien (Westland! in supporting Air Holland's amendment, declared the Labour Party did not waul recruits from amongst the Liberals. Iluse were no rat-catchers on their side. No matter what subterfuges the Liberals ■iml Reformers resorted to. Labour would be in power in New Zoalaid in v 1 x years time. He condemned the record ol* the Reform Party, which had been one of continuous persecution of the workers; while their economies had always hit the poorer classes, while richer people had got off miscrntchcd. No attempt had been made to snlv etho unemployed problem, and there was nothing for the unemployed to do hut either steal or starve. The whole of the unemployed might have been employed on public works. hut while the Government had been complaining of workers going slow they themselves had been going slow in the matter of public works. V bile he condemned the Government lie must confess he found no solution of the country's pioblems in anything advanced by the Liberal Party. Mr ATontieth (AVellington East) declared the policy of the Government was not enticing people from the eonutrv to the cities, but they were being driven into cities because land mono-

poly and alud aggregation were rainpant. in connection with which Government's legislation was so much bluff. Thus wa.s the- Government piling up the unemployed problems, for everywhere the labour market was b'Miig overcrowded by competitors who wire being brought into the Country under a mistaken immigration policy.