“NOT SEDDON’S MANTLE.”

Evening Star, Issue 23056, 7 September 1938, Page 2

“NOT SEDDON’S MANTLE.”

10 THE EDITOR. Sir, —Mr Mazengarh, National candidate for Wellington Suburbs, is a quick worker. He spoke in Stratford on Saturday night, and it appeared iu your columns on Monday afternoon—at least well over a column of it. As it does not appear to have been sent by Press Association it must be put down as another effort of the Nationalist Party machine. He says a lot about Labour and Liberalism, and declares that the Labour Party has no right to claim any credit for helping Mr Seddon to place his humanitarian legislation on the Statute Book. Now, sir, you know better than that, and Mr Mazengarh knows, too, but he is supporting the party which has traditionally opposed all efforts to improve by legislation the lot of working men and women. Throughout Mr Seddon’s political life ho had the support of organised Labour, just as lie had the opposition of those who were opposed to all progressive legislation. The party which stands in New Zealand politics to-day for identical legislation to that proposed and carried through by Mr Seddon is the Labour Party. The party opposed to humanitarian legislation today is the National Party. In Mr Seddon’s time he had to fight the National Association (known popularly as the “ National Ass.” for short), 'and some of the arguments and propaganda of the National Party of to-day bear a striking likeness to the defunct expression of anti-progress. Organised Labour did stand by Mr Seddon as allies, and neither Mr Mazengarh nor any other Nationalist can prove otherwise.—l am, etc., Live Electok. September 5.