TRADES AND LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 282, 28 November 1931, Page 19

TRADES AND LABOUR.

IUCKUND UNION ACTIVITIES.

(By industrial tramp.)

OICS SKSTIKCS FOE THE WEEK. 11 nbef 30— Bricklayers. ■ December 1-Scamen, Freezing

?- THE GREAT DAY. | v 0 matter what shade of political • on citizens may profess, next \\ ed nders for each party, after a short, Zea and strenuous campaign, is cX]) ectiiir; success for its •'nlte Labour is very hopeful of candidates. iti iu Parliament, counts for a " d 1 m-ounds for such Jiopcfulness. tlier rtT other hand, several Labour °\ 5 will have very close results. COl t come of the country centres f" 1 onti-babour candidates have been where a"". . as + there are »""f J'taSg that 11, c tallies (rfi't.i'. E. r„T,v, M.P., * i-L to an Auckland Central in speaki o gtatcd that ]l(i ]iad ? t'Tefumed from addressing audiences f he Thames and Paeroa districts, and 1 < Wihlo si°ns for the Labour can¥l IS caused him to think optimisti--sof success. In Paeroa, Mr MarJin who had been put forward as a Late for United for the Thames ciltßeforrn), after presiding at Mr. 6 meeting declared his intention f importing the Labour candidate, lie the secretary of the United party • organising Mr. Montgomenes cam'i^ D Mr. Parry expects a Labour Sn in Thames and also at Rotorua. the metropolitan electorates Labour's ,JL cc3 are very much fancied. With five candidates in Auckland East and Fden Labour prospects are good. Even jn country electorates I am quite prerareel to hear of a great slide fiom the results of last election. STRENUOUS WORK. The sliort; sharp campaign, while more acceptable to the electors as a ■whole, has proved more than strenuous for the three leaders of parties. _ 111 order to cover as much of the _ Dominion as possible in the space of time available, only the principal centres can be visited, whereas in normal campaigns most of the smaller towns could count on a visit from tlio leaders. This time they have to depend on the reports furnished by the urban Press for data to form their opinion upon. Mr. Coates las pressed the air service into his engagements, and in some instances has teen°flying to the fray. Mr. Forbes and 3fr. Holland have used the more mundane services of train, boat, and car. Mr. Holland, after a meteoric tour through the Dominion, and speaking at I\ T ew Plymouth on Tuesday evening, left for Auckland the next morning by car and spoke shortly after his arrival to one of the most enthusiastic meetings in the Town Hall that it has been my privilege to attend since the days of the great leader Richard John Seddon. The hall was packed nearly an hour before the address started, and there were overflow meetings in the concert chamber and the streets, which were served by loud speakers from the main hall. The reason for the crowding so long before the time of starting was that there were no tickets of admission. I am pleased to note that this procedure las been advertised for Mr. Forbes' meeting in the same place on Monday evening next, and I hope that he will be accorded the same right of unimpeded free speesh as ; was given to Mr. Holland. It is the expressed desire of the Labour party as announced by Mr. Savage at Mr. Holland's meeting that this should be so. Labour abhors the "gag" and every man should be allowed to express his opinion without let or lindranee. Mr. Walter Nash, M.P., the secretary of the New Zealand Labour party, has also officially issued the same request, according to Press wires froin Wellington. ~- The voices of the- contestants are already showing signs o.f wear and tear. Speaking in the open air is very exacting to the vocal chords, and I note that the microphone and loud speaker aie more availed of in this campaign than any I have known in New Zealand -hitherto. When a speaker is addressing a crowd in the open air he always has to force his voice to reach the man on the outskirts, and the speaker suffers accordingly, hit with, a couple of loud E f ,ea +i' ers J udiei °usly- : placed on the rim 01 the crowd he can ..use a normal speaking tone and not strain his voice. « ~ experience before the mike on Thursday night at Eden eirace, and it Avas quite comfortable, a? t, a T? r^ v ' olls eveinil o a candidate at fj' ll w as using the " mike," and people from their own iii a a^ s col, W hear, him right across he Arch Hill gully. Of course, this Wiw ten ' i,:)le prospect of somettedhnlff f Utur ° Using tlle same gum for advertising "Bloggs' Liver brim, •? a suffenil g public, but it will tamnilL 3 ° Wn remed y- An election for tiV , comes on ty °«ce in a while, must all be thankful. Xt Wednesday will- tell the tale.

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