RED FLAG AND UNION JACK.
PREMIER STANDS BY FOXTON SPEECH. The Premier when replying in the House last night to the Financial Debate referred to the criticisms of bis recent Foxton speech. He said that he was prepared to stand by every word of it, and he quoted a report of the words he had used concerning the Labour Party. He a Iso quoted a speech in which Mr Holland a year or two ago had condemned the Liberal Opposition as spiritless. Then he read to the House reports of speeches in which Labour members avowed that Socialism was their objective. Mr Holland: Hear! hear! Mr Masse.v observed that he had not expected so frank an admission. He reminded the House of the speech in which Mr Holland had declared tlmt with the Liberals he was prepared “to vote .Massey out,” and that afterwards he would vote the Liberals out as soon as they declined to obey the Labour Party’s dictates. What sort of a policy would Mr Holland dictate to the Liberal Party if he had the opportunity? Mr Holland: A better one than they ever had before. Mr Massey: A Socialistic policy. Mr Holland: Most certainly! The Prime Minister added that tho Liberal intermediaries in the late negotiations between Liberals and Labour had been leaders of the single-tax movement. If Labour came into power the country might expect a policy composed of Socialism and single-taxing. Mir Veitch (Wanganui) challenged the Prime Minister to declare whether he would be prepared to combine with Labour against the Liberals.
Mr Massey: If be asks whether I would take ofliee with the assistance of the Labour vote, I say I would walk out of Parliament to-morrow first. If I had to •depend on a single vote from the extreme Labour Party my resignation would go to the Governor-General! The Prime Minister went on to .-ay that he had been accused of mere lip-loyalty. He invited his accusers to repeat their charge on every platform. He would say noihing. The Hag of the Labour Party was tlie red Hag. The red Hag and the Union Jack could not fly side by side. The choice of the country was between the red Hag and the Union Jack—as he had declared at Foxton.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2475, 2 September 1922, Page 2
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378RED FLAG AND UNION JACK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2475, 2 September 1922, Page 2
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