WORKERS ARE RATEPAYERS.
Referring to Councillor M. F. Luckie's remark that Wellington could not be run successfully if politics were to guide it, Councillor B. Semple.M.P., said at Broklyh that all Citizens' Conimittee. candidates were supporters of the: Coalition Government and it was hypocrisy for them to profess to hay? no politics, or to suggest that they could suppress their political opinions When it came to city affairs. Mr. Luckie'. and his colleagues allied '<■ the council with the Employers' Association, paid the fee but of council revenue, and paid a representative of the association to defend them against their own -Workmen wnen new awards •or agreements were being sought "Many of the employees of.the council are ratepayers," said Mr.' Semple, "and these ratepayers contribute towards the fee paid to this man to oppose .them. I wonder what would be said if the Labour Party was "in charge'pf the city's affairs and paid a fee out ' of the public purse to the Alliance of Labour, or the New Zealand Labour Party, and then paid one of their'own supporters, as is being done by the present council?" - . ...-.'.,.'-.■!'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 7
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185WORKERS ARE RATEPAYERS. Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 7
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