POLITICAL MEETINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1938, Page 10

POLITICAL MEETINGS.

At the commencement of a political campaign that promises to be something unusual in the matter of accusation and counter-accusation, ad lib. I wish to make it perfectly plain that no returned soldier, disabled or otherwise, is, or will be. authorised by me or my association to attend any political meeting with the intention of breaking that meeting up. I repeat: the disabled soldiers have a just cause of complaint; and no amount of evasion or suppression on the part of any candidate or partv can smother this fact. Through party politics and all its exigencies, through an insane desire fri attain the_ Treasury benches, the soldiers have been divided into groups with but one purpose— to do them less than justice. In other words, eick and disabled men and their wives and families are and have been made political pawns. My advice to the soldiers is to retain their courage, keep their heads, exercise sane intelligence and play fair with every candidate. They are entitled to aek questions concerning their welfare, but these questions should be asked at the right time. W. A. CLINTON. President, Disabled Soldiers' Welfare \ssn.