The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette TUESDAY, APRIL, 7, 1931. IS OUR CABINET COLOUR BLIND?

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette TUESDAY, APRIL, 7, 1931. IS OUR CABINET COLOUR BLIND?

Tt is obvious even to the generally unobservant man in the street that Comniunfsm i. s raising its danger signals 011,re more in the centre** of hotli islands of our Dominion and that tho Hods are again. becoming: purposefully agressive. This extremely unwelcome and seriously significant development has come along like a plant in a hothouse sTiee the Tinhorn* Party began its* stonewall in the House on that portion of the Finance IbII wh.'ch had to do with the 10 per cent, cut on the salaries and wages of public servants. Wo do not for a. moment suggest that the well organised Civil servants have had anyth‘ng to do with the development of JTedisjyi any more than we believe that the Communists have the est fraction of sympathy with the men and women who are employed in the State departments. But the Civil Service •Association’s branches held meetings of protests against the cut and published the resolutions of protests, and these expressions of their grievances were seized upon by the Reds :is well as by the political Labour leaders as a -weapon with, which to lambaste the Cabinet in and out of Parliament. Certain it is, too, that much, of the unusually abusive terms used *0 stringinglv by Mr Holland and Ins followers 'n the House were seized upon by outsiders who are extremists out to disrupt trade and industry and create turmoil in the* body politic. Abusive catch phrases usually stick in the minds of the unthinking and no other men in a community understands mob psychology so clearly and cleverly as tli(’ Reds w ho have half digested Karl Marxism, which strikes at the very base and root of national welfare and patriotism. The result of the loose and unchecked Communistic phrases used in the debates in the House last week, especially when the angry Labourites were pouring their vitriolic utterances Luo the pages of Hansard, has been the stirring up of an undercurrent ot unrest in the four cities, where just around the corners the enemy in the midst lets loose lus rehelious wordy poison g/V. Mostly these vehement Reds are foreigners, and certainly nearly every one has left his own. country for that country’s good and has settled out here to the detriment oi our country, which has known no industrial peace since the* Red came amongst us. Are the authorities deaf to these preachers of strife m the centres of population, arc the Premier and his colleagues of the Cabinet blind to the flashes of Red that are not flaunted only at night? We like to think that the raid on the headquarters of the Communists in Auckland V»«t week signifies nc-ther deafness nor colour blindness on the part of the Government. The police have been persistently raiding the residence of Chinese who have been gambling, whilst the clubs of New Zealanders are overlooked. The opium smoker has also been rooted out. Rut these local activities against the yellow men are not nearly as justifiable as a Domin-

ion wide sweeping up of the Reds, who to-day are doing their very worst to prevent heads of families who need work and want to wo-rlc using the advantages of earning wages under the schemes of the TTnmploymont Board. New Zealand Tins the awful example of what the .Communist has done and is still doing in Australia. Why let the Red worlc his own unsweet will over here? It ik against the law to permit snakes in get into the sweet- gre -s of New Zealand and when found they .are crushed without mercy. The human snake is quite as dangerous. He should he senth<* belongs and ilt would he cheaper and safer to deport rather than gaol him.