F. M. B. FISHER AMONG THE REDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2832, 10 January 1925, Page 2

F. M. B. FISHER AMONG THE REDS.

COMRADE YOUNG’S CABLE. London, November 13. At the beginning of Mr F. M. B. Fisher’s election campaign at New-eastle-ou-Tyne, lie was subjected to such persistent interruptions that for a day or two he was not heard by bis audience. Then the voluntary British Fascist! took a hand and quickly reduced his meetings to order. On one occasion, a nurse in uniform became so incensed with a, man who was continually interrupting that she smacked his face. This brought another woman into the argument, whereupon the nurse smacked her face, too, and threatened to repeat the medicine if she considered it necessary. There was comparative quietness in that part of the hall for a while after.

A piece of road stone, with jagged "edges, which was hurled tlirough the open window of the candidate's car narrowly missed the occupants, is a trophy of Mr Fishers adventurous passage in one of the Labour strongholds. After relating this sfory the Newcastle Daily Journal adds: “How bis opponents must fear this frank, upstanding, sunny-eyed standard bearer of the Conservative Party.” p

The Labour candidate, Mr C. P. Trevelyan, who proved successful again, seems to have gone to the trouble in cabling to New Zealand for opinions regarding his opponent. At one of bis meetings Mr Trevelyan said: “My pockets are bulging with telegrams from the Labour Party and trade unions of New Zealand.” He read the following: “Rainbow Fisher. Greatest enemy New Zealand seamen ever had. Warrants unqualified defeat at Parliamentary election.—Young, general secretary, Seamen's Federation.”

“And why not a rainbow?” asked Mr Fisher in one of his speeches. “A rainbow is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever, and there never was a rainbow without sunshine.” As for being a strike-breaker, as had been alleged, be would do his best not merely to break a strike, but to break the necks of the originators of it, if it was organised against the instructions of t leg men's leaders by a minority who wanted to bo'kl up the food of the people and who were acting- in concert with a foreign agenev. As for Mr Young, Mr Fisher added: “He is not an impartial judge, since he opposed me in Wellington Central and was so far down that he had to forfeit his deposit. Mr Trevelyan is dependent upon the discards of the Rectors in' a modern democracy like New Zealand.”