For years the so-called “capitalistic” Press of New Zealand has been very effectively used as a method of propaganda by the half-baked Labour agitators, duped by Marxian textbooks. Yet after getting in his column or half column the same agitator turns round and denounces the Press for “hiding the truth from the workers.” The reason for this is not far to seek. When a strike has failed, as most strikes do fail, the mob orator must find a scapegoat or there will be awkward questions from hit late dupes. . . Labour suffers not from lack of publicity, but from overpublicity. Any exploiter is an enemy to society, but the mob exploiter is the worst—the man who lashes himself into a frenzied appeal to the bitterness, passion and envy of workers. —Christchurch “Star."
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1926, Page 1
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