ATTACK UPON PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2512, 30 November 1922, Page 3

ATTACK UPON PRIVATE BUSINESS.

HOLLANDITE REVOLUTIONARY METHODS. (Contributed by the N.Z. Welfare League.) If any proof is wanted that Mr Holland’s party is a Revolutionary Socialist Party with strong Communist leanings it can be found in the Revolutionary literature the party is issuing broadcast at the present time. Not content, with dealing in politics, and presenting political views and proposals, this party is busily engaged in flooding the country with leaflets making the most false and malicious attacks on private business Arms. These attacks take the form of distorting and misrepresenting the financial transactions of the Insurance Companies, Banks, Mining Companies-and other business concerns. The object of this misrepresentation is to foment a spirit of class hatred from which they hope to benefit.- We cannot deal with all these false pronouncements as the leaflets are numerous and thousands upon thousands of copies are being distributed. So great is their output that people are asking “where does the Red party get. all the money, it must be much wealthier than the parties it calls Capitalists?” LIES ABOUT COAL. Mr Holland started his campaign by protesting that “to say the Miners practice “go-slow” was a lie. He forgot that he himself had written and published the following: —“ln 1919 there was a “go-slow” strike, nobody denies it, the Miners had no optiom” Tt is bad when a man calls his own word “a lie.” The Red's are now wdelv circulating a leaflet which says:—“A Miner working at Huntley hewed three bags uf coal and he received nine pence (9d) for his labour, next day bis wife purchased three bags of the same coal for 17/0 in Auckland.” This is printed in bold type and ttlso the words “The Miner’s share was nine pence (9d) —Who got the 10/9?” That leaflet is a lie throughout. The hewer gets 1/A for his labour, the retail price in Auckland is 16/- best household, and 13/0 kitchen coal. Where the lie is most gross is in the suggestion that the Capitalist gets 10/9 out of the 17/6. What the hewer gets is one thing. What the truckers, shiftmen, deputies, shot-firers, surface hands, storemen, clerical workers, cartel’s, railwaymen, yardmen, etc., gei has all to be added before the coal reaches the consumer. At a glance the reader will recognise the lying character of this Red propaganda. That is only one leaflet out of many and they are all charged with similar untruths. - NEED TO EIGHT THE EVIL. In the face of this dangerous and altogether destructive propaganda of the candidates and members ot this Revolutionary Party it is time the people woke up to the evil that confronts our country. To say that men who attack business right and left; foment class hatred and spitefulness; encourage industrial turmoil and pour out maliciously false statements are loyal to the Dominion is quite ridiculous. Down with everybody who has anything in their st.vle of argument. If this sort of thing goes on this country is likely to suffer very serious trouble before long. The people had better deal with it now before it results, as it must, in smashing industry and bringing about depression; unemployment; and acute want and suffering.