LABOUR AND POLITICS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 170, 18 July 1919, Page 6

LABOUR AND POLITICS.

t WELFARE LEAGUE'S REPLY. 1 (By Telegraph.— Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. | The Welfare League has issued a reply • to the Hon. J. T. Paul's reply to a previous manifesto. This refers to the gra- " initotis assumption that the Labour party as at present controlled is repre- ¥ sentative of the groat body of sane ' labour, and asks if Mr. Paul expects the country to believe that the accredited t leaders of his party arc not mon who openly expressed disloyal opinions, avowed sympathy with revolutionary j doctrines, and says tho avowed opinions of the leaders of the Labour party make j it ruinous for the electors to commit c the Government of the country into .] | their hands. Tho reply also contends 0 I that in the previous manifesto the just c | aims and aspirations of Labour were [ adequately recognised, and contends it t is significant that no practical suggesi- tion has come from tho Labour party to c remedy existing conditions of industrial ' unrest, or a deliberate system of limitai- tion of output so disastrous to tho proi jrross uf the country. Until tho party d disavows direct nction and the revolun tionary principle of its leaders it must d remain under tho stigma of desiring industrial unrest for class purposes. The x reply also criticises tho sincerity of tho t Labour party's sudden soUoaUiji-; far the '- welfare of small farmery