“ELECTION LIKELY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 1

“ELECTION LIKELY”

CABOUR LEADER WARNS UNIONISTS MEETING PROMISES HELP Press Association. WESTPORT, Today. The Bulter Labour Representation Committee arranged for Mr. Tl._ E. Holland, Leader of the Labour Party, to address industrial unions in the Buller electorate on the political situation and the Labour Party’s national, campaign. In line with this arrangement Mr. Holland spoke before a wellattended meeting of the Westport. General Labourers’ Union last evening, when he reaffirmed his statements made recently to the Westport l) branch of the Labour Party. He warned the unionists that an election was quite possibLe before the end of the present year and urged that it was their clear duty to stand prepared. If the Reform Party should again come into power it would, cf course, mean a reversion to that party’s wages policy of 12s and 9s ja day and the United Party’s failure left them with no alternative whatever, but to strive to place a Labour (Government on the Treasury tenches. The meeting unanimously resolved bn a minimum contribution of 5s a member to the Labour Party’s national campaign fund within a stated period «.:nd also pledged the union to give pvery support to the party in the event p! an election coming. This week-end Mr. Holland is adPressing meetings of various; miners’ pnions.