THE RED FLAG

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 90, 13 October 1920, Page 7

THE RED FLAG

Red flag waving receives no support from " A Woman/ who exhorts extremists to tell the workers the truth, to show them that the only way to combat profiteering is by increased production. To the thinking section of the workers, " A Woman " thus addresses herself: — " These men who urge strikes, go-slow, higher' wages, less hours: are they a Godsend to you )o are they your Wends anxious for your welfare? No. Are the workers of New Zealand so downtrodden by the masters, by the Government, that you and yours have to wear sheepskin hats and clothing and rags bound round your feet; have to eat half-rotten fish, sour milk, and black bread? No; the majority of you, unless derelicts of humanity, are well clothed and well fed. So you should be. But one-must work to live. You are in New Zealand, not in Russia or Italy." Yet, the correspondent states, there are good sensible men in the Labour Party. But there are also some others who bring up Ireland's cause, or some trifling thing about Samoa, t " What have these to do with you | Let those who are always quoting Russia, Italy, Ireland, or Samoa, go there and help the workers there out of their distress into which Socialism has plunged them." Concluding, tho correspondent pleads with the workers to " think hard, work hard, and turn down those who talk treason, and help 'New Zealand to become a pattern of good fellowship and thrift, and you will not b* sorry. '.