RELIGION AND POLITICS
Unsavoury electioneering methods that were being employed by anonymous groups were deplored by Mr. H. McK6en, Labour candidate for Wellington South, when speaking at Newtown last evening. In referring particularly to what he termed a particularly vicious type of propaganda, having a religious flavour, Mr. McKeen said the distributors of this filth went about at night and left pamphlets at the homes. Much of it was vile stuff and obviously the products of weak-minded people who should be medically examined. In addition to the spread of religious innuendoes, it was suggested in these pamphlets that the 40-hour week was a -demoralising influence upon the young men and women of this country —an argument which was used as pnti-Labour propaganda. "If this is so wrong," Mr. McKeen said, "why is it necessary for these people to distribute their wares at midnight instead of coming out in feroad daylight and stating their case?"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 15
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154RELIGION AND POLITICS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 15
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