LABOUR EXTREMISTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 July 1913, Page 4

LABOUR EXTREMISTS

We have every sympathy with the legitimate aspirations of Labour (observes the Taranaki News), but there is a growing and a sinister conviction in all classes of the community that it is adopting a domineering attitude that must tend in the long run to materially set back its cause. The Red Federation is a good deal line the militant suffragists, at Home. It probably does not represent one tithe of legitimate Laibour, but it makes more noise than all the re&t of the community put together., just as a few hysterical and neurotic women at Howie are doing tihe same unseemly and unhappy tiling in the disinterests of the franchise movement. Labour .may to-day greet Mr Fowlds with "ironical cheers," but this only remains a striking evidence df its inability to appreciate who are its best friends, and a startling illustration of a domineering autocracy which fails to realise that tlii s is the bete noir 'against which it has been organised as a protest. The autocracy of Labour is, as a matter < fact, a stigmatism that bids fair to ruin the legitimate Labour party, aw 1 the sooner the clamouring minority realises this fact the sooner will the few "still strong men" who are working in its interests find the way made clear for a desirable political progress.