THE NATIONAL PARTY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21812, 18 June 1936, Page 15

THE NATIONAL PARTY

... • it -,Y THE I'UE-iS. r ,r - V be commended upon t. , , sagacity of your . r.t, ..i up-i the National micltr.ng the devastating trie ciJ regime at the last • wherein even the "Demot;aii wire not given so much as a “:uck irfi it is really amazing how t.ne It.;k who generally aspire to ijr. : e^.ire s oi disciplined courage, Kuka so readily become infected with fear and general blue funk. Naturally rae folk “will get hurt” in the rtaafe-over from the old order to the b;», but did nobody share that fate tender the maladministration of the part? Most obviously also, if the old Government had proved itself worthy of the respect and esteem of the electors <M4 it did not) it would hardly have been fired cut so unceremoniously. And the idea o' putting the old order ic again—committing the same mistake twice—is ludicrous in the extreme! The new era is upon us: that is certain; and if men arc still fool enough t® dam up the flow of the river, and Jet expect to escape the flood when them barriers burst—well—that’s their funeral—Yours. etc.. E. H. C. RIDDER. June 17. 1836. Tv TBK EDITOR OF TUB PRESS. Sit.—lt does not matter a great deal 'tether our new political party is the National party or any other n *me What the recent meeting of as ®My as 300 delegates does show is the forces opposed to the Labour «te«fts are prepared to drop their political differences and cor»le in a united endeavour to oust Labour party from government. If repeat Labour victory has done yfeng else, it has made the class ydwoa. class barrier, class war—or *■4 you care to call it —much more than in recent years. That the Labour party is the politiy expression of the New Zealand *®*king class cannot be denied, and "•real reason for the new alignment forces was given by Mr S. G. Holin his categorical denunciaof the Government and its mea■jrm. Mr Holland’s plaint and the PJawt of his new party was that the *** our party had made great strides y*ards socialisation of finance, prijtoy production, and industry, and we ■jay rest assured that it is just on particular points that the anti~g°ur opinion will centre *and coIt is just at this stage, in my 2®k*n. that the workers should be ffepared to drop their own minor difand organise around the only which up to the present has f**to any indication of bettering their •nadrtkm* Ti» workers have now better opporto organise, both politically industrially, and it is their duty ®to so and -wing in behind thepolitizj* Labour party in its endeavour to the working class something more » mere existence. Too long have Dubb with the grimy hands gd Henry Dubb with the white collar Jr*® standing with the heel of one y Pound firmly upon the toe of the I? Ber * *nd now they have the chance ” WaJ k about a little they should for Ig* emulate their “master” and do a Reorganising on their own account. 4act should require very little that unless we organise, tzt 4 ** with, and swing in behind the iZ®* 7 party what we gain to-day we ‘P'tnorrow.—Yours, etc., A. B. GRANT. *»e 17, 1936.

EDITOR Of THE PUSS. An other Student’s” desire of ig"? for the National party will. r *ceive little support We S’Jw* shaken off Coalition and are 3*<“d*ring from the effects of its treatment of the workers, but a Government that has many of its promises, doubtless continue the good y** l is the idea of a new no j me people been exwith more than enough? that contains members °f |EjggCoalition will not, I think, get its late victims. We ■HBpwi on the present Govern-

temf S?ISBK| 0 U “Ration of Its bTcoiStlffihSJi 44 * life ♦h^SH? n . al means this time; i.e.. Savage J: x ? ressed des{re - Mr the SSvSJI “ Ch Soal despite all me adverse propaganda. The most hj?i t ? B^y at n Ve i °* , ®hards” cannot help but see that socialism* nw<» an avairrestetibte S2J% Blo * ly b “t with SI! throughout the world. "Another Student 1 ' for the Labour Government.— Yours, etc » A G - mannering. Hanmer, June 16, 1936.

*0 WUI EDITOE OF THE FEES*. enfiH , r ( i«/? ad i ng Mr . Dailey’s latest tem Pted to say with Wo « is » words.” He calls the “true blue” reformers lik ® th ® Hon. W. Hayward and Messrs Caygill and Hall, who are on the National executive, and are perhaps more “Liberal" and less Labour, than the “Liberals” who made such a brave show in Christchurch North last election. , The National party are at any rate definitely anti-socialists, and are not flirting with Mr Savage and his crew. —Yours, etc., _ TRUE BLUE. June 17, 1936. TO THE EDITOE OF THE PRESS. _ Sir, —Monday night’s meeting of the National party was a keen disappointment to the country delegates who had travelled, in quite a number of cases, many miles to be present at a gathering they had looked forward to since the middle of May, to hear a personal report on the conference in Wellington, and also to get some Information about the organising of the electorate, and forming committees in order to get well under way for the election, which we expect in about two and a half years—it may be sooner. Notning was said or done to give any'indication that the problem of organisation was to be tackled in the electorates in a uniform and workmanlike manner. It is absolutely useless to play at organising for the next two years, and then engage in a hectic struggle lor the remaining six months before the elections, a system that seems to have been the rule right throughout New Zealand, and especially dear to the hearts of Canterbury’s “Old Gang.”

New blood must be introduced into the councils of the provincial executive so that we may get out of the rut, instead of a small body having plenty of power but very litle will to do. Let us start right from rock bottom and build up our committees, etc., not as hitherto from the top as seems to be the order of the day amongst those at present nominally controlling the party organisation in Canterbury. That was. I understand, the method discussed and agreed to at the enthusiastic conference in Wellington, and should be carried out wholeheartedly right through the Dominion. —Yours, etc., 8.0.8. June 17, 1936.