THE LABOUR PARTY.
POLITICAL PROSPECTS. (Special to •'Star.") 5 WELLINGTON, this day. The Hon. J. T. Paul, the president ot the New Zealand 'Labour party, who arrived here on Saturday and is proceeding to Auckland to-day, professes to be well pleased with the prospects of Labour at the approaching election. He says that the party is progressing everywhere, in spite of the almost unanimous opposition of the daily Press, and that many of its recruits are coming from what previously was regarded as the lca-t progressive of the old political parties. Ho attributes this not merely to dissent from the National Government's war policy, but to the failure ot the Liberals and the Reformers, both when fighting one another and when in coalition, to fulfil any of their more important promisee to the electors. The weakness of Mr. Paul's case for the Labour party is its lack of a constructive policy. At present he and his colleagues are appealing to the electors solely on the sins of omission and commission of the other parties.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 66, 18 March 1919, Page 10
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174THE LABOUR PARTY. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 66, 18 March 1919, Page 10
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