LABOUR DAILIES—WHY?

Grey River Argus, 8 November 1939, Page 8

LABOUR DAILIES—WHY?

Because of insidious propaganda thr Press throughout New Zealand is trying to turn public opinion against, the Labour Government. There is hardly an issue of a capitalist newspaper that does not in some way try to distort what the Labour Government has done. If an opponent of Labour delivers a speech, extracts of it decrying the Labour Government are forwarded to other papers and cheerfully given full publicity, but the prosperity New Zealand is enjoying is carefully kept in the background. You hear very little about the unemployed in other countries, or about the poverty and wretchedness that obtains there; and instead of being proud of what New Zealand has done they go on crying “stinking fish.”

The issue is clear. Are we to remain the most industrous and happy people in the British Empire, or are we to go back to the, Forbes-Coates-Hamilton regime and the poverty the Labour Government took us from? To settle this issue we want Labour Dailies.