LABOR WASHES ITS DIRTY LINEN

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 18

LABOR WASHES ITS DIRTY LINEN

At a mcr-tin;.: of tlio- National Council of tlic New Zealand Labor Party, held at Wellington on December IS, tho following resolution was passed: —"'I hat -the Nation-,;; Council of i.bo N«'W Zenland Laber Party \iews with d<op regret, tho iK-ti(ju of Auckland members of tho party in c,>n!;rai,ulating the r<aetionary party of tho Dominion on ii; sueeess 'at iho rewnt poll, and takes this, ill" first, opportunity of declaring that whatever opinions may have been expressed by [he members ooncornod. they were purely their own priva.tr views and in no way represented the attitude of the New Zealand Labor Party towards either the- Liberal or (Y,n«Tv:Uivo parties. This executive furthermore, repudiates the. action oJ any branch of tho party in officially supporting the candidature of any \v;vwui other than a pledged Labor man. or in election contests whwc no Labor man is standing taking any official part tht-j'tin. ,.