THE WELFARE LEAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1921, Page 4

THE WELFARE LEAGUE.

The formation of a 'branch of the Welfare League at New Plymouth may be taken to indicate that the particular work on which the League is engaged is worthy of support and encouragement.. The aim of this active organisation as defined by Mr. McLaren (the organiser) is very simple—“to maintain stable government, on sound constitutional lines”—but those who realise the danger to law and order caused by the operations of the extreme section of Labor by endeavoring to foment a revolution in the direction of abolishing all private rights, cannot fail to be convinced of the .need for Combatting this policy which endangers all the liberties and safeguards for which the British race has struggled for centuries. Necessarily the work of the Welfare League must chiefiy be concentrated on unceasing vigilance and effective propaganda—the one to discover the subterraneous methods of Sovietism in disseminating its poisonous and insidious doctrines, and the other in counteracting the effects likely to be produced unless the eyes and intelligence of the community are made thoroughly aware of the terrible abyss to which Sovietism leads. Another important branch of the League’s work is to d'O all in its power to dissipate misunderstandings and promote mediation as a means for settling all industrial disputes. It is a lamentable blot on this era of progress that an organisation such as the Welfare League has to be brought into existence and become actively engaged in fighting against forces which aim at internal strife and disintegration, but it must, unfortunately be recognised that it would be a suicidal policy to allow the extremists to succeed in their object, hence by strengthening the League, as well as encouraging and assisting its efforts, those efforts may be crowned with success. The menace is so real that all should Mlp in minimising, if not destroying, its power for evil.