“TO HELL...”

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1925, Page 4

“TO HELL...”

llll.LV IH'OIIEs I.AHMES OCT AT EXTREMISTS. SYDXKY. XYivoinlicv 0. Loud applause greeted Air W. M. Hughes at the Parramatta Town Hall last night when lm said that he was I r -pon -i! ile for the splendid roildilious enjoyed to-day hv Australian seamen. "Tweny-live years ago the seamen were hadiy treaded and ill-led: now they are ihe most highly paid seamen in the world- and what ihey've got does not rest on tlm rc-ponsihilit ie- of Air Walsh for job control, hut upon me." he said.

" Mr WaKli and lonipnny are only a handful, hut they have us hv the throats, am! they know it: i.ut when some of them point at our Empire and say "To Hell with it!" I say "To Moll with von.’

"We like our White Australia policy." added Mr Hughes, "hut those gentlemen do not. We like our great liritish Empire : these gentlemen do not. The Communists are seeking the downfall of the British Empire and the establishment of a huge brotherhood under one ling.” Air Hughes referred to the marked contrast between the Labour Party of to-day and the party of Mr Fisher’s time.

" Senator Gardiner has asked us to look at the records of the Fisher Government. He says, : It’- a fine Government.’ I agree with him. He must remember that 1 was a member of that Government, and did most of the work in it. (Applause). But the Labour Party of to-day has not the remotest resemblance to the party that Mr Fisher led.’’