ELOQUENT APPEAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1014, 3 July 1930, Page 9

ELOQUENT APPEAL

PLEA FOR POLITICAL CO-OPERATION STRIKE DEPLORED }tlE SUX’S Parliamentary Reporter WELLINI i ll)X ; Wednesday, gpeakins In the Address-in-Reply m :: 1 ''Uncil today, iff John Sinclair (Otag-n) appealing eloquently for tin; co-operation o£ all political parties in the interests of the country, attracted particularly clone attention. stir John earn that co-operation should be the slogan of every part of ,b« British Empire, if unemployment in N’ew Zealand was to be solved, there was needed closer industrial co-opera-tion. anti, what must react favourably upon Industry, party co-operation, too. A gulf between political parties in England had formed, and so far it had not been bridged. There was no room for any such gulf in New Zealand. Were political parties to remain unaffected by the spirit of the world movement for peace? Were there to be no round table conferences between them? “They all know, 1 said Sir John, “that the alternative to co-operation must he strife. The day cannot be very distant when the people will rebel against their interests being made the battledore anil the shuttlecock of party strife. When we examine conditions in other parts of the Empire we see that what is being called for today is not only industrial co-operation, blit party-co-operation too. Now is no time for party strife. There are higher purposes to be achieved, calling for the best help that can be given. , "The trading strength of our Empire has yet to be regained. There was co-operation during the war. with the results we know. Now the war is over but every business man knows that the warfare of international competition for trade is going on more keenly than ever. There was never in the history' of our Empire, in the history of our Dominion, a greater need for cooperation—Empire co-operation, industrial co-operation and party cooperation—than there is today.''