MR F. M. FISHER.

Shannon News, 9 January 1925, Page 3

MR F. M. FISHER.

LIVELY ELECTION CAMPAIGN. LONDON, Nov. 13. At the beginning of Mr F. M. U. Fisher's, election campaign at Newcas-tle-on-Tyne he was subjected to; eucn persistent interruptions, that for a day or two he was not heard iby his. audience. The/a the voluntary British' Fascisti took a hand and quickiy reduced his meetings tq order. Qn one occasion, a nurse in uniform became so incensed withi a man who was continuously interrupting that she. smacked hio 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 mat part of the hall for a. while after. A piece qf road stone with jagged edges, which was iiurled through the open window. Of the. candidate's, car and narrowly missed the occupants, is a trophy qf Mr Fisher's, adventurous passage in one qf the Labour strongholds. After relating this story, the Newcastle Daily Journal adds; "How his opponents must fear this, frank, sunny-eyed standard bearer of the conservative party."

The Labour candidate, Mr C. P. Tievelyan, who proved successful again, seems to have gone to the. trouble of cabling to New Zealand for opinions regarding his opponent. At one of Ifis meetings Mr Treyelyan said: "My pockets are bulging with telegrams from the Labour Party and trade unions of New Zealand." He read tlie 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, he would do his best not merely to break a strike, but to break the necks of the originators of it, if n was organised againsMhe instructions of the men's leaders by a minority who wanted tq hqld up the fqqd qf the people and who were acting in concert with a foreign agency. As for. Mr Young, Mr Fisher added: "He is riot 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 electors in a modern democracy like New Zealand."