LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 30 November 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Napier branch of the New Zealand Labour Party at its next meeting will consider the advisability of running Labour candidate's at the coming municipal elections.

English Press reports in- September and October showed a terr'foly bad wintor for the unemployed was. expected at quite a large number of cities, notably Cardiff, Southampton, Norwich," London, Swansea, and many North of England centres.

In the debate on war. wealth and the capital levy at the Trades Union Congress held at Portsmouth it was pointed out that during the war 390,---000 persons had increased their wcalfcli by £2,050,000,000, and that £2,000,000,---000 could be obtained by a capital levy for the reduction of the National Debt. The interest on this debt is £600,000,000 annually.

It will be remembered that a Press Association message appeared recently in the papers stating that: — "An extremist was endeavouring to organise i;hc factory workers in South Tarauaki into a union, and that he was meeting with much opposition." To give the lie direct to this mis-state-ment, the truth is that this extremist (union secretary) has formed a factory workers » union with a membership of 200, and this number has every likelihood, of being considerably increased in the near future.

Lord Henry Bentinck. Tory M.P-, writing in the London "Daily News" (31-9--20), on the reprisal policy of the "Black and Tans," after describing the British Government of Ireland sis- -"Government by Pogrom,"- says: The r ßritisli. electorate complacently allow in Ireland a reign of brigandage and ftloctfshQd. f Appardutjfr; Rqifcish Government in Ireland exists for no other pui'pose but to stir up the brute and boisterious force, in. men . Meanwhile from the Irisk people the cry goes up "How Ion};? Let them live and take comfort in the thought that a General Election cannot much longer be delayed, and in liope that the electors of Great Britain ; will turn from an opportunist.. wW has' filled the \*"dwith violence, ill-will and strife to men who, bound together by the principles of goodwill and co-operation, will-pro-vide for honest tilings in the sight ot men,