LABOUR EXTREMISTS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 564, 7 September 1920, Page 2

LABOUR EXTREMISTS

ORATORIAL EXTRAVAGANCES. COUNTER-ACTION -NECESSARY.

A correspondent to the New Zealand Herald, Mr. N. McMullen, pertinently comments as follows on the pernicious oratorial effusions delivered at street corners in Auckland:—

Sir, —A Labour Party orator? speak - , ing on Quay Street on a recent Sunday afternoon, made many statements that were altogether misleading, and should never be allowed to go unchallenged in any loyal British crowd. The whole burden of the harangue was a depreciation of the Allies in the great war; and an appreciation of the Russian Bolsheviks; much was said about capitalist wars and exploitation, but nothing about Britain standing by her treaty obligation to Belgium, or the worldmenace of Prussian militarism; or the glorious struggles of Poland for freedom and the restoration of lier ancient kingdom so ruthlessly torn from her and partitioned between her despoilers; nor was there a breath of condemnation of the murderous me-

thods of the Bolsheviks. It is about time all lovers of British institutions and loyal subjects of the greatest power lor justice the world has i

| known, got together to find way and means to counteract the banefu teaching of these firebrands. I; there no patriotic body that can sup ply speakers to attend these meet ings and give the man on the street the other side of the case ? Somt concentrated effort should be made along these lines before it is too late to stem the tide of anarchy.