LABOUR'S SECRET POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 10

LABOUR'S SECRET POLICY.

(Published T>y Arrangement.)

Warning To Electors,

The Labour Party's announced platform is remarkable for the nature and variety of its promises. These have been drawn up deliberately to gull the public, and do not in any way represent the Labour Party's intentions should they gain office.

In speaking of raising a loan in one breath, and repudiation in the next, they reveal the. blatant vote-catching nature of these proposals. How impossibly ridiculous they are in conjunctionJ Then we have the solemn pledge to restore. wagecuts, whilst the most prominent men "in the Labour movement were responsible for instituting a< cut in the salaries of - their employees, the staff of the "N.Z. Worker."

They talk of free speech, and their more fanatical supporters by their organised rowdyism deny this right to other candidates.

They deplore "machine politics/ , yet the Alliance of Labour at a conference "instructs" the Labour Party to oppose wagecuts, and "demands" through them the abolition of the Public Debt.

-They talk of industrial' revival and private enterprise, yet their basic- platform plank is the socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.

Their hearts "bleed for the workers;" yet the Labour secretaries- and organisers, as most of the present Socialist members describe themselves, collect from £20,000 to £30,000 a year in compulsory contributions from workers through the Trade Unions. Numerous cases of absolute heartlessness in the collection of these forced fees are available.

They talk of helping the farmer, and land settlement, yet the "Worker" , (official organ of the Labour Party) stated in 1926 in reference to the dropping of the notorious usehold policy, "There will be plenty of time to change the Party's Land Policy when it obtains control of the Treasury Benches."

Numerous other cases of political duplicity in the presentation of its policies may be cited. Mr. Holland himself sums up their chief thought. "The greatest of all opportunities to capture New Zealand politically is now knocking at the Labour Party's door."

The Labour Party believe they have heard political opportunity knock, and in their frantic rush to take advantage of the misfortunes of the Dominion, they have swept aside consistency, and hidden anything of their real intentions which might hinder them. .-

They have confused the rattling of Socialistic skeletons for the- knocking of opportunity, but ■ Wednesday next will demonstrate that the electors will not be misled.-