Cricket

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 8

Cricket

The umpires appointed for tho Wellington v. Country match are Messrs C. Woodhani and F. Hubbard.

power on the back of the popular front movement. In conclusion, I would like to ask how any decent-minded worker, or any tradeorganisation can identify themselves with those who bring such discredit upon the labour movement. Can we then clasp tho assassin's hand calling him “Friend” and “Brother,” Must we be blind in soul and mind And all his foul deeds smother. Must we support those who wreck Democracy and freedom, too, Or shall we stand hand iir hand for Labour tried and true? 1 am, etc., “PLAIN LABOUR.” (To the Editor.) Bir,—Permit mo to say in reply to “Worker” that I made no “attempt to uphold the Fascist Dictator Alussolini as the bulwark of democracy.” I said that Alussolini despised democracy and regarded it as a failure. This should have been clear enough for any reader. 1 consider that our Parliamentary system with all its faults—and liTcy arc many—is the only system oil the horizon that offers jirotection against a dictatorship. .1 loathe dictatorships whether they be of the type of Hitler cr Btalin, of Alussolini or Alustapha Kemal. In the early years of tho twentieth century it was hoped and thought that various countries in Europe would develop a Parliamentary system on the lines of tho British Parliament. lie would be a confirmed optimist who would hope for that to-day. There may bo ways other than the Parliamentary system for preserving democracy, but 1 refuse to recognise a dictatorship as one of them, oven when that dictatorship is labelled “The dictatorship of tho proletariat.” “Worker” in a y think otherwise and he is welcome to his view, but I keep mine. It is not denied in any quarter that the objective of Caballero is a Government oil the model of Russian Communism, and then, no doubt the acceptance houses will lend money to Caballero as they are lending it now to Blaliu to protect and develop democracy.—l am, etc., JAAIES F. AIucAIAN ÜB.