LABOUR GOVERNMENT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 443, 26 May 1937, Page 5

LABOUR GOVERNMENT

ATTITUDE TO UNEMPLOYED A Statement Denied Press Association —Copyright. Dunedin, May 25. An allegation that Dr D. G. McMillan, M.P., had stated that the unemployed as well as others in the community had been sold by the Labour Government was made by Mr F. McComish, representing the Dunedin branch of the unemployed workers movement. He had met lliree local members of Parliament, he said. One of the members had stated that he felt almost a hypocrite in asking the unemployed to be patient with the Government just a little longer, but he would make that request to them. The second member had repeated the Statements of the first but the third had said, “Fellow workers, you and I have been sold by the Labour Government. When I was asked to stand for Parliament I was led to believe that Parliament would be controlled by the rank and file of the party. Instead of that we have it controlled by 11 men who are incapable of doing it.” “That statement,” Mr McComish added, “was made by one of the best Labour members in New Zealand.” Voice: “Dr. McMillan.” Mr McComish: “I won’t deny it.” “The whole thing is a tissue of inaccuracies,” Dr McMillan said when the statements made by Mr McComish were referred to him by telephone at Invercargill “Those statements were not made and I not only dissociate myself from them but flatIly deny that I said anything of the kind. I “We have not met the unemployed I for months; not since January, I i think,” he added, “and no statements resembling those alleged were ever made.”