DOES THE LABOUR PARTY HELP THE WORKERS?

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 81, 26 November 1931, Page 6

DOES THE LABOUR PARTY HELP THE WORKERS?

The Laboux! Party in New Zealand ciaims that it will. 40 away with unem- - ployment, and make the lot of the - wox-kihg'man a good deal easier. Mr. Holland has stated that he would r,e- • peal the wage-earning legislation, and • was described in a flambouyant adver- • tlsement as "The Man to do away ' with Unemployment." The above ciaims are typical Sociakst Labour promises, and the hon- ; ouring of these may be as typically kept. For example, despite the bold . . asserti&n that they had a positive remedy for unemployment, the Lab- . our regime in England saw an inc- ease in the number of unemployed ,;,by over 1,000,000. . In Austral'a, Lang and Scullixx were •^responsible for all sorts of extrava- • ganfc prereleet*on pledges, yet thc v Federal Labour Government reduceci the basic wage by 10 .per cent., anc -inereased the wages tax by 300 pe: •1 cent. ■1 Rallwaymen in Bathux'st, Austrai.lih, voiced their sent'ments a§ followi b "We denlore the fact that no genuinc fb efioH has. been made by the Govern4 ment to fxnd employment for unemp'oyed akhough the unemployment b'tax was increased 300 per cent: by a r Labour Government." . 14 Electors in New Zealand, particutfki'iy the workers, should view Socr:ialist Labour's pleas in the light of ycold feet and nroten faiiure, and txeat - thcrn acccrdlngly at the polls. — PubElished by arrangement.