THE MAYORALTY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21686, 21 January 1936, Page 15

THE MAYORALTY

'' ""'■-' «» H* 'WD 1 " 108 ov THB FBE3S. «" T^if efforts of some of your ; to boost the candidature Kfralrft J. Howard, in the selcc- ■ ifl of the Labour party in the Mayor- . aity contest have been a little amus- ' ffir Surely it is absurd to suppose - that the Labour party is so short of i Jading and able men that Mr Howard S ' irSeonly possible candidate. ' IlMs not very long ago that the 1 labour party, conscious of its power ' Mid-full of zeal for its policy of demo--watic government, loudly proclaimed ite belief in "One-man-one-job"; yet we flow have some of the same Labour narfy advocating the candidature of {me who already holds several jobs, *geh with substantial remuneration—member of Parliament. Chairman of its Committees, chairman of the harbour boanfc deputy-chairman of the tramK" The fees of these, together. •* with the Mayoralty honorarium, would f : ■ Bjodwe a total of about £I2OO a year. > Sut*hr to* Labour party is not so ' short !<2 leaders that it will pause to consMffl? loading Mr Howard up with A sgji jjore work, which only a super- * Stan-could efficiently undertake. £.-■- Theie is evidence, too, of want of | fcfth in the strength of the party. In I the final stages I should expect the t party to be brave enough to launch out on a policy which would .bring to the front one of its other men, who, • tovtat proved his capacity in minor portions, might well be tried qut in - ■ the UMJor one. •It was Wily by this method that Mr - StfUfaan and Mr Armstrong won their - rotes.—Yours, etc., i ■ ' "AN INTERESTED BURGESS. January 20, 1936.