The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1919. A SPURIOUS LABOUR ELEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3352, 3 December 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1919. A SPURIOUS LABOUR ELEMENT.

With which i;s incorporated “The Taihape Post and Waimarino Nowa.”

It has been impressed upon audiences in various electorates, during the last; fortnigh~l", that Mr H, E. Holland is not ‘the leader, in 1"a1-liament or elsewhere, of the New Zealand' Labour Party. It has been widely broadcasted that _Mr J, T. Paul,- who is ‘seeking election for a.Dunedin constituency, having resigned his seat in the Upper House, is the real leader. Candidates standing in the Labour interests are repudiafting Labour according to Mr Holland, and proclaiming that according to Mr J. 'l‘. Paul. ’l‘hel‘e is no evidence to satisfy a discriniinating public, however, what the difl"erenee between the Inabour of Holland and the Labour of Paul is, but there is ample evidence that neither one or the other‘ is justified in using the term “.labour.”' Hr Holland is seeking the sulfrages of VVes-t Coast people as leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, but "we are not aware that Mr Paul is making any claim to leadership whateverL It seems that there is a 7 split in the Labour camp, or that there are two Labour Parties, or that one party is falsely described, and would be better known as the Party of Anarchy, or, perhaps, the Revolutionary Party. There is no doubt about. there being at least three brands of Labour seeking eleetion in ‘the’ present. campaign and to sympathisers with a just and humane Labour this is disconcerting. The question is already being asked‘ whether, it elected, these -three brands, will coalesce in \,thc House, and if. so, under whose whip and -leadership‘? It is assumed that whatever preponderenee of the ‘three kinds may be in’; P'arli.ament the gratification of a de—: sire to weild polilticlal power will bring the three brands into close partner;<.llip. But that would result in a party compound that now seems immiscible, or a party of incompatibles, :1 Labour hOUSg divided 2g:linsf'itsel‘r'. The constituencies are anxious 'about this uncertainty. All candidates are claiming to be Labour, but from their individual sentiments on the liixsti:ig:<. one is as much. opposed to the other as to l.ibera.lism and Reform. Although there is not sufficient to disclose that Mr Paul and Mr Holland are brothers-in-arms, they have collaborated together, been eo—workers ‘to such an extent and for so long that the public cannot disisociate them in the objects they seek, and the principles for which they stand. The mistake the various brands of Labour is making is that of not promulgating precise declaration of the several party principles; wh,ether they have signedithe platform of Hol-lends and Howards, and are bound to heel at the crack of ‘:‘le- some whip which Hollands and Howrards have sworn allegiame under, or whether they are free to flout the “Pecull” of the Holl.v.n(l-Hmvard Party-shm:-ld they have the hem-3rit.}' to vote in a Way displeasing to the Anarchic Chief. Individual candidates’ statemellts 531’0 3101:. cpnvtincing‘, "for Ehe only presumption possible is that all oflieial Labour candidates will, whatever their personal opinions may be, fall into line behind the leadership of Holland if they are elected. It has been very obvious ‘that during the elec. tion campaign proceeding much care has been ’:.taken to suppress that which

}"presumed Labour leaders have hitherto iboldly pl'eaCho-d._ i\lr Sernple, for ill- - stance, is not pi-oclaimixig to the elecltors of Wellington South that it’ he‘ [were in Russia to-day he would be a {Bolshcvik; if in Germany he would [be 'a Spartacist, but it is unbelievable ! that the leopard can change his spots; l that Mr Semple has so soon become. a ipenitent convert to something more humane =and honourable; that he has abandoned the revolutionary and sedi‘tious dostrineg he‘ so blatantly stood I for, and adopted more loyal and peace- ] ful methods of achieving Labour aims. It is not the issued inanifesto of iliabourltliat contains the national danger, but it is that which 55 11013 S stated in the Manifesto that men and ‘women electogs fear. While there still lringg in the ears of constituencies the Bolshevism, -Spartlacism, and Anarchy of Mr ‘Sample, Mr Howard at Christehurcli, is stating to a Christchurch meeting, “that what is taking place in s'Russia_. to-day will take place in New [ZO-aland tomorrow if the workers are “returned to power.” Who is this man {I-loward, that he dares to assume relsponsibility for what ‘the workers of 5 New Zealand will do? Is he a Labour icarididate supporting the lC'3.(lCl'Sl‘lip of ‘Holland, a member of the contfrateinity of spurious Labour, an apostle of Bolshevism who is simply making use of the workers to destr-oy'New Zealand ihoineg and industries with a. bloody ‘revolution that he may loot, rob, and kill as his brother Bolshevists are doing ‘today in Russia? There is without doubta horde of boas-ts in human fo‘i'nl Waiting their opportunity to gain such ascendancy by low cunning‘ as [will permit them to scathelessly rob, ikill, and destroy all «that the true British worker in this little country Ihas worked almost /' incessantly to build up. 'These men profess friendi ship, but were it not for ‘their ‘machinations ‘there would have been, iin utmo’st «prol)ab‘ility; genuine I Labour government in power long ago. 1 A Parliamentary Labour Party is I-no more forward to—da.y than it was a quarter of a century back, and it is the Bolshevik element that has divided Labour, V and ' will continue to, divide Labour, with an extremism 't.ll’3.t edueated, sane, loyal,” workers and citizens will not tolgr-ate. There is a prob|ability that thousands of genuine ‘workers will be hoodwinked into re-It-ording their votes for hydra-headed Labour that is now seeking their suffragcs. The position is -that Mr Hollland is asking the electors in his conistitueney to vote for" him as the P-ar-I liamentary ‘leader of the Labour Party, and that 111- E. J. ‘Howard, a ChristICl111‘.'(3l1 Labour candidate, is frankly, boldl}'.- telling the electors “that what ‘is taking place in Russia to-day will ,take place in New Zealand to-morrow | if the workers are returned to power.” Yes. that isnthe position electors in "l‘ll_.:iS and cyvcry electorate have to! take into their most" serious consideration, not forgetting that another, Mr Semple, would be a Bolshevik, a Spartacist, anything that is opposed to} peaceful achievement of permanent im. 1 provement. of the condition of workers‘ -generally. The ‘Labour candidate forl

this electorate is, from, his ‘utterances, a. man who favours improvement by evolution, -and would shun the dangers of revolution, but it re-zisonablc to assume that should he be elected he could not withstand the pressure that a -‘-Hollanzd-Seniple-Howard lfeadersliip would bring to bear upon him, it would be expecting’ too much from the frailiies of human nature. It must be borne well in mind that ‘the ravages of the reactionary element can be re--paired because they do not involve murder, but the bloody prOCeSSOS 01’ the revolutionary can never be blotted out. The wholesale brulalism and butehery by extremists in Russia, Aust_ria, and Gcrmgmy will for ever remain the darkest blot on the history of the world; are workers here going to -add the name of New Zealancl to that list of blaekriess? The e»le(-.to1-s, workers, as well as opponents of justice for workers, have not been g'lVoll 13.3’ Labour any o't—he:- alternative than that all official Labour candidates will, by choice, or persuasive force, record their Votes in Parliament for wllatevert their leader, Holland, may dictate. Had the cause of the w-orker been espoused today by A. W_ Hogg, or the late Mr Hindmarsh there ‘Would have been strong reasons for believing that Labour would have romped into power, but workers, electors generally the whole civilised world. over, shrink from the possibilities that may become actualities if votes are recorded for li.a'bour lenders who frankly state on the platform “Thzlt wlizrt is taking place in Russia to-day Wlll take place in New Zcaland to—nlorrow if the work. ers are returned to power.” Vvorkers and sympatliisors, we ask, who should know ‘better than Howard and Holland‘? .