REACTIONARY REFORMERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 12

REACTIONARY REFORMERS

NEW NAME FOR UPPOS MR. BARTRAM’S ALLEGATION »lr. F. Bartram, Labour candidate for Grey Lynn, addressed open-air meetings at the Zoo terminus and the corner of Peel Stret and Richmon Road. Both meetings were attended by large audiences. What the electors had to decide on November 14, said the candidate, wa* whether they would vote for the defi' nite policy of the Labour Party, wbicb had been before the country for years, or the Reform Party, or the United Party, with its three-weeks old policy The United Party was composed of the disgruntled members of the R c form Party, and the most reactionar) members of that party. Mr. Bartram dealt with the exten sion of the Public Trust Office, the Government Insurance Office, gave an extensive outline of Labours policy to deal with unemployment remarking incidentally that the Unit Party, who are now exploiting the un employment problem for political pur poses, had never protested again** and had always voted with the mers in their indiscriminate encour * ment ,of immigration, which haa centuated this great problem. „^. t . In answer to a questioner, Mr. u ij ram said the Labour Party abolish “boy conscription.’ ’ e „ r js ing, “The best way to prevent war to prepare for it,” was an exp d theory. The Labour Party hn* in inculcating the principle of P **v c ’ and the best way to preserve P . was to make the people happ) prosperous, with homes of their The late war had proved training to be a farce, said Mr. *> t 0 ram, and our boys had been to forget all they had been taught. f The Labour Party were in » f(?r of a system of physical training the youth of the country. wer* Votes of thanks and confidenc carried at both meetings.