LABOUR'S POSITION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 110, 5 November 1925, Page 8

LABOUR'S POSITION

STATEMENT BY EXECUTIVE.

Mr. Nash, secretary of the Labour Party, has handed the following statement to the Press on behalf of his National Executive: —

"The New Zealand Labour Party thanks the 175,000 electors who supported the party candidates at the elections just concluded. The Parliamentary Party has temporarily lost some of the finest battlers in the Labour movement, men who have devoted some of their best.years to the interests of their constituents, their party, and their country. The party, however, has added considerably to its vote. "Over 30,000 more doctors.recorded their votes for Labour yesterday than at the elections in 1922; and whilst the number of Labour members elected has been, considerably reduced, and that of the Government increased, the figures, if analysed, show the defects of the iirst-past-thepost system. ' "Leaving out the uncontested Bay of Plenty seat, the Reform Party, with just under 300,000 votes, has 51 members elected for European seats, whereas the Labour Party, Nationalist, and other parties, with the support of over 300,000, have twenty-four representatives only. , "The Labour Party will continue its propaganda and work, and will also assist the Government' in any measures it introduces that will relievo the housing shortage, increase the compensation benefits, or give aid to the mothers of large families, and any legislation that will advance the interests of the people generally is assured of the support of the party in and out of Parliament. ■"Labour, tvith faith in its leaders, and assured of the justice of its cause, looks forward to the future with quietness and confidence, knowing that so far as the platform is built on the foundation of equity, truth, and justice, it ultimately must be written into the laws of our country."-