"RIDING ORDERS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 224, 21 September 1935, Page 11

"RIDING ORDERS."

INDUSTRIAL ELEMENTS. LABOUR AND THE TARIFF. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. "It i.i quite clear that the Labour party has to ride to orders given to it by the industrial elements," said Mr. W. .1. Poison (Independent, Stratford), in the House of Representatives to-day. The policy of the Labour party, lie added, was formulated by 400 trade anions which had nothing in common with the farmer. Not one member of the party in the House, he said, could claim to represent the farmer, but the party put out a plan and expected the farmers to swallow it. He was quite satisfied the farmers would not swallow it; they would not agree to the abolition of the country quota and allow job control to have full play in industry again. "We know the Labour party lias invariably stood for high tarifls." Mi. Poison continued. 'They want to maintain hothouse, industrics in the cities." \ Labour member: Name one. * Mr. 1'olson: I'm not suggesting that the present industries arc hothouse industries, but if Labour gets control the tariff will go up and we will have hothouse industries. It would be the maddest' of folly for the farming community of this country to agree for one moment to any ot the proposals the Labour party is putting forward for their consumption.