FARMERS AND POLITICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 286, 3 December 1930, Page 6

FARMERS AND POLITICS.

If Mr. A. E. Robinson will look up the newspapers of November 20 he will there see the formation of a new political party. Among the "provisional committee he will see Mr. A.' E. Robinson's name. It is rather unfortunate if there are" two men with the same name and initials. I take it that any member of the Farmers' Union has the right at its branch meetings to criticise the union's constitutioa ,without being dubbed by Mr. Robinson as a> ■bad unionist. It seems rather odd that,any? one like Mr. Robinson, (himself such a candid critic, should be so sensitive to criticism. Wβ Dargaville unionists did not, as Mr. Robinson says, take the unsuitable linen to the public wash. We discussed at our branch a phase tihat all good unionists should discuss. It ie Mr. Robinson himeelf who has gone to the public wash with the union's business. While admitting Mr. Robinson's political views are hie own business, he must, as editor of our union's paper, admit we unionists who do not see eye to eye with him on politics have a right to some consideration in our own journal. J. G. BARCLAY. ' :