KEIR HARDIE.
Sir-‘"Blimp" has given himself a most appropriate name. It corresponds with his letter. Who is he to "Damme protest" against what the BBC puts over the air? There are other listeners besides him. I do not know Keir Hardie, or whether he is a dreadful socialist, but it seems to me that what was wanted in those days, but what is sadly lacking, was a bit more of the social spirit, with a good measure of kindly understanding and sympathetic feeling thrown in. By what I hear Keir Hardie was one of the early heroes who stood up for Labour at a time when it was in need of a champion; when it was being ground to death by capitalists, useless Parasites, and hypocrites under the name of religion, with too little of the Christian feeling and an overflow of selfrighteousness and avarice. Labour to-day is the backbone of the nation and the saviour of civilisation. If Keir Hardie worked for the betterment of the conditions of the working class in the days of poverty and oppression, surely to hear of him cannot pollute the minds of the young of to-day. It is to be hoped the BBC will let us hear more of those early champions.
ELIZABETH A.
ROBINSON
(Marton),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 190, 12 February 1943, Page 3
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