THE LABOUR PARTY.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 July 1919, Page 5

TH E LABOU R PARTY.

REPLY TO’ THE WELFARE. ‘ LEAGUE. » DUNEDIN, July 411- . 1 ln. reply to statemenfs -by Ml‘. Sker‘ ii rett at. the meeting of the VV€lf3~l'o c League, the Hon. Paul, President of a the Labour Party, says: The Party V demands that the members.‘ of the t Welfare League 'aYlTf- the men who ‘ s finance it stands up that the peolJle‘f may know whose welfare they are“ primarly interested in. Some of them‘t made huge profits out of the war. 11 Some refllsed to place the covuntry’s welfare first’? in the dark . and ‘; dilficult days of the \\'ar_ Referring 1: to the opposition to Labour, Mr, Paul ,1 says: “fleeialismg, ariarchism, and Red— 1 « f(;diS:]l}‘ have dolle all their turn at gob-lins..J"To_-(lays Mr. Skerrett pins his I, faith to I_W.Wism and Bolshevism as ‘. a scarecrow to ‘frighten sensible}. electors away from the Labour Party.‘ Tiler? is not a irord of criticism. of ‘. Labour Party"s platform but much indignation and criticism of develop"-E. ments in Russia. The question for the electorslis not whether Bolshevism in ‘l Russia is good of bad, but whether the ‘Labour Party ’s platform is construct‘ ‘ire and helpful in this critical hour. ‘Discussing industrial developments, Mr ‘ j Paul says: “The “Labour Party was‘ ‘made necessary because men of Mr. ‘Skerrett’s class had all the political power and made laws in their own‘. interests. The comparatively lunre-. ‘presented class today are the people‘ ‘who are carrying on the“i"i'ndustrie‘s ‘oi the country, and as the future pro-‘ ‘gress largely depends ‘on industrial <levelopnlent_, this class must have] larger representation‘.‘ The Labour‘ ;Party has -.1 definite land policy to' ‘check the present deplorable land‘ ‘aggregation and speculation, whereas‘ the Welfare League's proposals ;. may ‘mean anything -A or ‘nothing. The I League’s proposal - for el'eCtol‘-al~=re‘.forrn ‘will penalise "eVery.“ man of limited‘ ‘means wlie st'an"ds‘,for “Parliament. The‘ Labour-“P‘:1-rty’s plank for proportional ‘.repz-esentation secures fair play and rate‘-‘rein-eseritatioii for all.” After! ».s:ui9§iii'ce ‘to’ demonstrate "the value of ,»na.tio?nalisation, Mr. Paulmsays: “The[ Welfare Dengue ' is doomed to failure . -because the houridfor fundamental re- ‘ forms: has arrived and the ‘League is too largely composed of men obsessed with their own Welfare‘ instead of the ‘people’s welfare.” A-A ’ ‘