ELECTION PROMISES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 10

ELECTION PROMISES

"UNITED'S FAILURE"

LABOUR CRITICISM

The reorganisation of the United Cabinet was referred to by Mr. T. Brindle, the selected Labour candidate for Wellington Suburbs, in the course of a political address at a meetrn- at Brooklyn, held under tho auspices of the Labour Party last night. Mr. Brindle expressed the hopo that the Cabinet as now constituted would be able to carry out some of the election pledges of the United Party Although the party had been in_ office for over twelve months, he said, no one could, accuse them of hasty legislation, but one had to be generous, as it was not to be expected that the United Party could do in a year what tho Reform Party had been thinking about for sixteen years. Mr. Brindle mid that the Labour Party had a distinct political identity, and would not be dragged at the heels of any other organisation. The Labour policy was opposed to the interests of big business and tho big landed interests, and for that reason would never become an appendage of the United-Reform Party. Dealing with the failure of the United Party to make good its' election promises, Mr. Brindle said that the Labour Party, more than any other party, realised the necessity for a speedy reconstruction of social conditions, and given the opportunity it would bring down legislation not for a small section, but in the interests of all those who performed the useful work of the community, either by brain or manual labour. The United Party, ho said, could not do any more for the workers than Reform was willing to ,do, and that is nothing. The United Party was barren of constructive ideas, and the Reform Party was imbued with destructive intentions. Both parties avowed sympathy for the workers, but used no effort to make that sympathy practical. Mr. Brindle expressed the opinion that Reform and United would soon come together, but no matter what occurred Labour would always retain its independence.'