"BLATANT HYPOCRISY."
(To the Editor.) Sir.—ln your leader to-day, under the heading "Blatant Hypocrisy." you seem to ir.e to take a wrong view of the situation. Where i.". Hie hypocrisy in denouncing the indenture system of alien labor in Samoa and "kicking out" some Samoans from a New Zealand Union? Tie principle involved seems to me lo he a very proper one, namely, oriual rights to all. If the New Zealanders would not tolerate Samoans in their Union they at 'east have the honesty to defend the Samoans in their efforts to excise Chinese from Samoa, which seems to he . ate logical and far from hypocritical. I am not a member of a union, hut think it would be a fair thing for the New Zealand unions to admit to membership the members of the unions of all friendly nations, and in return have the advantage of n> "nbership to their unions, which would ofbe found a great convenience.—l am, HAWERA HEADER. ' Hawera, ,10th Sept. [The hypocrisy conies in by tho Union leaders professing regard for the Interests of the Samoans over Chinese labor, yet when op. portunity is given them to translate their professions into action, they refuse. If that is not inconsistency we do not know the meaning of the word.—Ed.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1920, Page 3
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