THE LABOR TICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 3

THE LABOR TICKET.

TO THK EDITOB. Sir, —I hold no brief for our present council—all honor to them, however, for their time and trouble—but J cannot see that wo will do better for our city and ourselves by putting in the candidates on the Labor ticket. What claim or claims have any of them to want to represent the people? I believe in the working man being fully represented in all concerns —by the right kind of representatives, but certainly not by the ones who are standing this time, except, perhaps, with one exception, who ; I think, is a good, levelheaded man linked up with the wrong party. One candidate, in particular, for the Hospital Board bases his claim on the fact that lie is secretary to the Hairdressers’ Union, and that he got a handful of dirt off a potato in the hospital and sonic one else got a piece of cabbage not properly cooked. Well, I leave it to your readers to judge for themselves what a great asset a man like that would bo to the Hospital Board.- The claims of other candidates on the list _ are in many cases equally poor, and it will be a sorry day for the ratepayers of Dunedin when they hand over the control of the affairs of dur city to the likes of those who want to control those affairs. We are far better off with the devil wo know than the devil we don’t know. Our present councillors may make blunders —who does not? —and may not please every one, but at the same time they do their best, and have the interests of the city and ratepayers as a whole at heart. Not so with the other party. The class distinction is so pointed that a blind man can see it.

It behoves the ratepayers on election dav to consider carefully what they do, and they will be well advised to cut out the names on the voting paper that are on the list headed “ Cut this out,” published in one of our papers on Saturday. I fancy our assets are worth something like about a million and a-half, and to think of handing over the control of these assets, such as tramways, water, gas, electricity, etc., to those who cannot do any good for themselves or anyone else, and place ourselves in the hands of the socalled Labor Party and a Communistwell, God help Dunedin and its ratepayers if that ever happens.—l am, etc., Cot This Got. April 23.