TALK OF FIGHT
ONLY DEMOCRATIC MEANS "CHANGE OUR RULERS"
(Special to "The Evening Post.") CHRISTCIIU.RCH, This Day. At a meeting convened by the Labour Party to protest against the abolition of the Arbitration Court and reduction in wages, the Mayor (Mr. J. K. Archer) said that all regretted the hard times through which they were passing, but the suggested raid on wages was the most extraordinary thing he had ever heard of, for it was proposed to increase the trade of the Dominion by reducing the purchasing power of the people. The Mayor asked what they were going to do abolit it. A voice: "Fight." The Mayor: "Yes, fight." Another voice: "What land of j fight?" (Laughter.) I A third \-oice: "Yes, and you'll get six months." The Mayor: "I'll say this, we are going to put up the only fight that we can in a democratic country. If our rulers don't rule in the way that we want them to, we will have to change our rulers.''
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 12
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168TALK OF FIGHT Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 12
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