The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, November 21, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1029, 21 November 1912, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, November 21, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

According to “ The Voice of Labour,” the mouthpiece of the United Labour Party, there are those within its ranks who are aggressively sympathetic with the anaichial and lawless Red Federation —the enemy of Labour. The “Voice” makes it quite clear that there is no room for such misguided representatives on its executive. It says that the executive “ has devoted whatever energy it has expended to truckling to the Syndicalist Federation of Labour; even going so far as to say that there was no necessity for the sending ol police into Waihi to maintain law and order there. Instead of openly fighting, and repudiating as ‘ The Voice ’ has done, and making it plain to the people of New Zealand that the United Labour party is a party of constitutional reform, and theiefore the declared enemy cf Anarchism in every shape or form, the Dominion Executive, dominated by the Syndicalist sympathisers, il not at heart Syndicalists themselves, who have got on to that body, has adopted a rail-sitting attitude right along. . . . They

have at last come down off the rail and openly declared themselves the allies of the Federation of Labour, the open champions of the mob that represents Syndicalism, Anarchy and 1.W.W.-ism in New Zealand. At their last meeting they passed resolutions congratulating the Labour members in the House on the work done during the session. The said members’ ‘ work ’ (with the exception of Mr Veitcb, of Wanganui), consisted mostly in

Anarchistic protests against the maintenance of law and order in Waihi—in plain English, in actually supporting the Federation of Labour in its Syndicalistic tactics. . . . Instead of boldly

declaring against the Syndicalist tactics in Waihi, it is seeking to curry favour with the Syndicalists, instead of making it plain and definite to the voters of New Zealand the U.L.P., is opposed to Syndicalism and all its work, it is only helping to keep back the progress of the party by glorifying the men who in the House supported the Syndicalists iu Waihi.” 11 The Voice ” warns the National Executive that if this pro-Syndi-calist attitude is persisted in it must eventually lead to a cleavage iu the party. We wonder what Mr John Robertson, M.P., will think of this. We notice that Mr Robertson is placing his services at the disposal of the Red Feds in the disturbed district and we hope his mediation will be beneficial — but at the same time it is an open secret that Mr Robertson’s sympathies are with the anarchial methods of the Red Feds rather than with the U.L.P. Thesoouer the cleavage comes, as hinted by ‘•The Voice,” the better it will be for the Labour movement. True friends of Labour should leave no stone unturned to wipe the Federation of Labour body off the Labour slate.