LABOUR PARTY AND "MAORILAND WORKER"

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 275, 14 August 1920, Page 7

LABOUR PARTY AND "MAORILAND WORKER"

Sir.-Mr. P. Eraser says that the senti. meats of the "Mnoriland Worker" are )iot those of the "New Zealand Laliour Party." Who, then, authorised "The , Worker" to call itself the "official organ" of that party? And.-how much more of the sort of stuff quoted is Mr. Eraser prepared to repudiate? It seems to me ! that "The Worker" is sick of Messrs. : Eraser and Holland, who pose as loyal- i ists in tho House, but tell a different '' tale outside, Could not Mr. Eraser arrange for a column in some other nal. where the views of the New Zen- i land Labour Party could bo faithfully > .expressed? As long as "The Worker"- : is allowed to call itself the official organ i pf the Labour Party, so long must, wo suppose that their "national president," namely, Mr. Eraser, believes that "majority rule by the ballot is rotten tn, , principle and practice," and that "wageslavers must be abolished," and that ; we need "a revolution after the Russian : method." i

,1 don't know exactly what tho New Zealand Labour Party is. Perhaps you can tell us? There was a "conference" some timo ago; at which they resnlvfxl th'it no member of Parliament should hold an exocutivo position. Is this not equivalent to disclaiming Mr. Eraser M their president?—l am, etc.,' .■■' 9 FABIAN. , *, ITrom the "Maoriland Worker" - of. August n it appears that at a later stage in tho Labour Partv conference tho remit referred to by "Fabian"—excluding Labour M.P.'a from the party executivs —was recommitted on tho motion o£ Mr. Holland, and on the motion of Mr. .1. K. Archer referred to the affiliated bodies 'for further consideration. A remit to include subscription to tha "Maoriland Worker" in the ordinary subscription to the Labour Party «as >-oferred to tho Labour Press Committee.]