Mr Muldoon and the S.U.P.

Press, 26 March 1980, Page 16

Mr Muldoon and the S.U.P.

Sir, —J. F. Garvey (March 22) is correct in his assessment of the members of the Socialist Unity Party in their campaign of industrial sabotage using executive positions in the trade union movement as a spawning ground. Certainly communism is not illegal but if this happy Moscow breed is to resort to gun-barrel politics if present methods do not result in the return of a Labour government at the next election then the silent majority is likely to become more than vocal. As I come from pioneer stock I am sick and tired of the socialist attempt to create division and class hatred. New Zealand’s economic performance has been marred by deliberate socialist sabotage for the Labour Party is now in the unenviable position of being financed in part by communist funds. The theoretical fight for equality has become a farce as the socialistic capitalists wax fat and ask the self-employed to carry the burden.—Yours, etc,, L, J. STEVENS. Oamaru. March 24, 1980. Sir, —The touching concern in your editorial, "The naming game,” for the S.U.P. —“ ... the names have been released as part of a campaign against a political party—and a legal one at that,” —would border on the bizarre, but for the fact that the Socialist Unity Party is directly linked with Sbviet Russia, no friend, to put it mildly,, of this outpost of British democracy. The editorial assumes a faint subversive pinkish hue, bearing in mind that Marxist thought has penetrated the walls of so many editorial suites in the Western world; if this is not so, how can the low-key approach by our local newspapers (including “The Press”) to the menace of Russian military and naval might, be explained away? Be that as it may, the aims and objects of the S.U.P. are plain for all but the politically motivated Left, to see. —Yours, etc., I. MACKAY. Lower Hutt. March 22, 1980. Sir,—Some years ago, while I was eating at Bellamy’s, the then Minister in charge of the S.I.S. told me that my name was on the files, possibly because of rude gestures I had made to Brigadier Gilbert in Taranaki Street. I .therefore, am disappointed to see my name not listed in Mr Muldoon’s statement. As this surveillance costs taxpayers more

than $2 million a year, one would expect 100 per cent accuracy, especially as Mr Molineaux is now trying to recruit more New Zealanders rather than the ex-military and British Colonial Civil Service types from Africa. Indeed, I feel the lists of S.I.S. section heads and members published in student magazines in the 1960 s and 1970 s were more accurate. This list of S.U.P. members is obviously a ploy to distract citizens from the serious problems. There are at least 300 unions registered in the private sector alone with over 470,000 members. Are they all being duped by a few elected S.U.P, members?— Yours, etc. M. O’NEILL, March 21, 1980. Sir, — France was beaten before the last war started. The country was "fifth columned” from within by hundreds of the most influential, trusted and respected men and women, who wanted a change and thought Hitler’s way was worth a try. Do not say something similar couldn’t happen here. Mr Muldoon has encouraged all thinking, loyal people who believe in New Zealand and our way of life, to take serious stock of the situation and be ready to support the forces of law and order and the freely-elected Government of the day, should the occasion arise. I am not perturbed by the named 32 S.U.P* members, but I am at the thought of the really big people behind them — the faceless ones — influential, respected, and trusted. The solid majority of New Zealanders despise troublemakers who, while trying to undermine this country, expect to be protected from prompf and vigorous counteraction, <— Yours, etc.* C. W, BATTERBURY, March' 24, 1980.