DISTRICT NEWS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 October 1919, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

KAUKAPAKAPA.

[Own Correspondent]

. At the invitation of the local branch of the Farmers' Union and the Men's Club, Mr T. Bloodworth, president of the Federation of Labour, addressed a meeting on Friday eyening on the aims of Labour and how Labour's politics would benefit the farmers. He outlined the Labour platform, and. said that farmers and consumers would escape exploitation by extending the co-operative system of buying and selling. Mr Bioodworth said the policy of the Labour Party was opposed to the single tax.

Although the meeting concurred with the speaker on many points, his land policy did not find favour, the chief objections being directed towards the impossibility of fairly assessing the value of the out-going tenant's imDrovements. Questioned as to the " go-slow " tactics pursued by the miners, Mr Bloodworth emphatically laid down that the Labour JPajty did not stand for strikes or -scny restriction of output, but was sometimes forced to adopt these means ias a weapon of defence. He said that if the Labour jParty had wished to paralyse industry, it eoujd have prevented one ounce of foreign goal from being brought into the country, by calling a strike of watersiders and transport workers,