NEW PARTY IN POLITICS.
LOYAL LABOR INCLUDED MR. C. E. STATHAM AS LEADER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Dunedin, Last Night. Interviewed concerning the new political party, Mr C. E. Statham, M.P., said he had telegraphed accepting the position of national president of the National Progressive and Moderate Labor Party He had done so because he believed that the new party was one which might truly be termed a young N«w Zealand Party and one which would be representative of the whole of that great loyal section of the community which stood between extreme Conservatism on the one hand and revolutionary Socialism on the other.
The aims and aspirations of loyal Labor would find expression through the new party, whose .platform would be broad, based on the principles of justice, humanity and brotherhood. The movement to form the party had received the most gratifying encouragement in the north and he had good reason to believe that it would find willing and enthusiastic supporters throughout th® whole Dominion. Naturally attempts would be made tby political opponents to belittle the movement, but he could say definitely that the new organisation meant business and had come to stay. Although Mr. Statham could not give much information at the present juncture, he could give an assurance that the new party would stand for sound and sane finance, the development of the country, the encouragement of primary and secondary industries and commerce, and the cessation of that irritating and indeterminate policy which had so harrassed business men during recent years. He hoped that the new party would succeed in bringing about a new era of industrial peace and a period of progress and prosperity that would be enjoyed not by the few but by every section of the community. Above all the new party was out to lend a helping hand to those least able to help themselves and to restore New Zealand to the proud position she had once oe* cupied in leading .the world in progressive legislation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1921, Page 4
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332NEW PARTY IN POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1921, Page 4
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