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MINISTER CHALLENGED

'UNIVERSITY SOCIALISTS

DEBATE ON RED POLICY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 15. Following the resignation of the Minister of Rehabilitation, Mr. C. F. Skinner, from the position of patron of the Victoria University College Socialist Club as a result of a motion passed by that body the club has'written to him challenging the Minister to debate the matter of the suppression of the Communists.

“The motion concerning your position was passed unanimously,” says the club in a letter to Mr. Skinner, "and indicates the fear of all progressives that unity in action—the only real basis for advance in socialism—will be destroyed by attacks on the Communist Party or any other socialist organisation. The Labour movement is not so strong that we can afford to have internal disruption. ,

“Apathy of the workers, as you have stated, is a primary menace to the Labour Government, but it is a result, we maintain, of confusion resulting from the divergence of opinion between the official Labour Party politicians and the mass of the Labour movement. An example is the result of the Westland by-election. “We as progressives must reject any suggestion that the Communist Party should be suppressed or deported.”

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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 8

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MINISTER CHALLENGED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 8

MINISTER CHALLENGED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 8