LIBERALS AND LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 284, 1 December 1925, Page 9

LIBERALS AND LABOUR.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Under this heading appears a letter complaining of my recent letters as an unjustifiable attack on Labour. I fail to see that honest criticism, can. come within that category. I maintain that Reform has used to its own ends both the Liberals and the Trade Union party with disastrous results to the mass of the people; it has astutely fondled each, to equalise opposition to the Government; and, having outgeneralled both, has routed the progressive forces according to the ordinary principles of military tactics, i.e., to divide the army of an enemy, then turn on each part and annihilate each in turn. In Auckland more particularly, the best leaders of Lahour are not directing their forces with due regard to the reports from their intelligence department. A large body of thoughtful wage-earners know it, and will not associate with an uneducated Communistic cult which is disrupting the Labour party's army and dragging it captive at its chariot wheels. Such has happened throughout the world, and the sooner Labour in New Zealand realises that this Communistic element will destroy their cause the better. The Communist is entitled to his mental outlook, but Labour and Communism are far wider apart than Liberal and Labour, whose ideals should be identical; hence, logical reasoning shows both the latter should be under one roof with a sound political and economic policy and with a common organisation. Those behind Labour must not object to-honest criticism. I might as well complain when in Roskill I found genuine Seddon Labour supporting mc and an element of ' Trade Union Communists saying, "I would rather see the Reform candidate in than the Liberal candidate." The political hotchpot called "Labour" has thrown the interests of the people back half a century. Eighty per cent of all thoughtful wage-earners know it and have lost confidence in a. constitution that enables men with the least political experience to wage war on those desirous of assisting them, and so aid their political enemy to saddle unjust taxation on the mass of the people and to fill the pockets of their supporters with tens of millions of unearned land values.—l am. etc., A. HALL SKELTON.