WELLINGTON CENTRAL

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 309, 24 September 1943, Page 9

WELLINGTON CENTRAL

“Due to the policy of .the Labour Gov-,, eminent. and the machinations of sectional interests, tre now have .ii large section of tile community that can be classed. as the forgotten men and ivoineti.” said Mr. Will Appleton (National). at the Realm Hall. Ilataitai. “The interests <>t the people have .been subordinated to the .State, binding them more, and more in a network of red tripe. There lias been created a great bureaucratic machine, iit which inspectors, controllei's, licensing authorities, and innumerable petty iiptucrats exercise the ' functions of a State dictatorship. .The time has-come when we should strive to improve the conditions of this forgotten section, and no: make them subservient either to a monopolistic capitalism on the due hand, or aggressive trade unionism on the other. The first thing to do is to restore the supremacy of Parliament and the courts of law,” said Mr. Appleton. ‘''There should, be no political interference with the processes of justice, or Ministerial intrusion upon the prerogatives of the courts. Power should'be placed in the hands of the elected representatives qt the people, and not in the bands of privileged outsiders, as is the case at pre«ent.” ■ ' Aircraftman C. G. Scrimgeour, at. the Oddfellows’ Hall,- Wellington last.night, dealt, among other things, with Mr. Fraser’s charge that his candidature was it campaign of revenge. "At his magniiiment meeting here last evening, he told the 58 people present Hint this contest is the result of my private quarrel with Mb. Fraser. Let me tell you this: I can take care of myself in that particular matter. I am fighting the Prime Minister today because he is the Prime Minister. With his defeat, the Labour Party will get real leadership again. I have been inside the Labour movement too long not to know how Mr. Fraser’s socalled leadership has retarded Labours progress. The part T played in helping Labour to power in 1935 is not forgotten by the workers of New Zealand. 'Workers throughout the Dominion —not onlyin Wellington l Central—will consider on Saturday that the job I have done in 1943 by defeating Mr. Fraser is no less than that I bad the honour to do in 1935.”