LABOUR MEMBERSCONDUCT (To the Editor.)

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 102, 2 May 1932, Page 6

LABOUR MEMBERSCONDUCT

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Your many correspondents / who are complaining at the use o£ abusive language by Labour representatives in Parliament have good cause for their indignation . arid protests. Owing to this conduct, repeated again and again, despite restraining words from Speaker and Chairman of Committees, Parliament is steadily losing the dignity it once, possessed. But is this not the very thing that Socialist members desire? When a riot takes place and valuable property is looted, the Government, and riot the culprits, are censured by these Jjpople. This reprehensible' conduct is, in my opinion, but part of a system of propaganda, as dangerous as it is subtle and insidious, to bring Parliament, and all it stands for, into disrepute and disfavour. At times like these, when nerves are frayed, and everyone is anxious of the future, this is distinctly subversive of law and order. When our legislators or any section of them, biased and onesided though they be, flout and openly defy authority—merely because they are baulked by a majority of fellow members elected undar the same system—it ~is surely time for sterner, measures to be adopted to; stop these harmful exhibitions. One possessed of any vision of the future can surely foresee the ultimate effect that studied resistance to law and order, if' allowed to continue, may well have on certain sections of the community.—l am etc., , t . NIP IT IN THE BUD.