QUESTION TIME.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1920, Page 156

QUESTION TIME.

A PEW STRAIGHT QUESTIONS TO THE SOCIALIST M.'s P.

(Contributed by the New Zealand Welfare League,)

To Mr E. J. Howard: When yon were standing for election did you inform the electors, as you recently did the members of the House, that yon were opposed to the whole system of Parliamentary Government, or did you follow the course of hiding your real sentiments until the election was over? To Mr J. McCombs: You were elected on a platform, which declared for a citizen army on a voluntary basis. The recent conference of your party having deleted that plank from its platform, will you tell usi whether you feel bound to support the plan you were elected to support, or the new policy adopted by your party since the election?

To Mr M. J. Savage: In presenting your Bill to provide for the registering of unions on an industrial basis you repudiated the suggestion that it was a move in favour of the one big union idea. Will you tell us what is the distinction between industrial unionism, as you understand it, and the one big union idea?

To Mr H. E. Holland: As you have presented as an example the Russian Communist system now in operation, will you tell us whether you are prepared to supply its military rule to New Zealand, and endorse the plan of forced labour outlined by Lenin? To all of the Party: We note that trades unionism has greatly increased m Russia since the revolution, can you explain why trades unionism is required in a country which is said to have no. private capitalists or employers ?