UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1925, Page 4

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

—.- ■ Lyflelton Times ’’ September f-THh.) .\t tlio Jell it oe Hall last evening lr I). Kil, who has announml his audidaturc, for the Christchurch .Smith eat in the Liberal interest, again tool; pon hinisell’ the rather ungrateful hut erv timely task t>i drawing attention n the coquettings with Communism of arious New Zealand Labour leaders, 'lie task is an ungrateful one been use t is not at all likely that the (•hairlines Mr Kll has thrown out to the ailumrites will he accepted, or that he questions he has asked concerning he meaning of certain ot their statcncnts will be answered. Nfeithor is i probable that we shall learn what he Labour Parly officially thinks iboiit the strike that is at present eriously injuring the commercial incrests of this country, and which has •aused so many thousands oi seamen o sillier tines, imprisonment and loss if wages. The subject seems to he a booed in Labour circles, possibly be•nuse whatever might he said about i some loss of votes would result, ami .he ••solidarity ot Labour” would be mperilled. The dilii'-ulty is one iiial il is easy „ apnrei iate. and even to sympathise .viih. There are occasions in the history of any political party when questions arise unou which silence is gold|iui it is not often that a quo. lion juite so momentous as that upon which Lite New Zealand Labour Party choose--lo plav the -.pb.i 11 x has to be avoided. Hie question at issue is whether the government <>l the country is to ho ell-; Ini,ted to Parliament or handed over g 1 a mall iiima of (‘onmilinis lalter tin- Itnssiiin lasluoii. .Mr llollaml uas, mi noeasion, given expression to :;■ ntinmuls that might, be taken to evidence an approval ol the llilssiaii m•■tnoil ul (iovernnient. and a desire to emulate 1 ho- e method-. i'.ven I.e mildmannered Mr lloward has < * 111 i 1 1' •• I dark Idols com-, riling t!«»• :• bid::ion ot Parliament as at present constituted, and the substitution' ol s'lmeiliiiig iba! lie calls "an industrial Pa rha icon I. Presumably what is meant i■• a legislative assemblv in which representation is b*v indiist rirs and not. by districts, am. in which the workers' unions uni replaio electorates. That is the principle (i | Soviet government, and sev.iePa 1... aporoved bv the Communists. .! 1! ,t. a I presoui II |s ra |!:, r iliipo: i am j, >r l |-o 'cool..' ol New Zealand to exact lv bow lar ibis i-oiuritl.-m o nl leaders and (‘om.munists extends. \•■ ■ • luive ills! received a copy o| the "Aust;bi 'ia !i .'•'ea .noil's .loiimuil.'' edited by Tom Walsh. It is -apparently l 1" organ as much oi the Austraiian l oiumunist Party as ol the seamen. One writer preach.•, tlnti it is no biisn.a- . cif (lie Labour Pait\ to provide lor tindefence ol 100 country: another, that the "capitalist class” must have their property torn from them by violence, because l.euin said so, and a third, men do not -a ah.” Its at inospherc. in fact, is exaellv that of the "New Zealand Worker." it there is any othei sort of "l.ahnur'' propaganda in mo in cither Australia or New Zealand, if (j.. ~ , no, ms oi to I c verv rigorously circulated. ’1 he ci.nculsion is inevitah!c tlial Labour in Lath (outlines i-. imbued mure or less deeply v. ilh Coinmuiiist do -t riao. and M r Mil is to he commended lor bis persistent a I tcii'-pls tn draw attention to the connection, and tn elicit i nun tbr leader- nl ti:o statement <••' I .heir allitnd-. srawrEr* wwwsir+x&rxnr ra