AN ABORTIVE MEETING

Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 September 1930, Page 5

AN ABORTIVE MEETING

LABOUR MEMBERS’ REGRETS

REPUDIATION OF OPPOSITION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. A statement issued on behalf of the. four Wellington Labour members of Parliament, Messrs. McKcen, Wemple, Chapman and Fraser, says they agree in regretting; the result of the meeting called up by the Mayor for the purpose of piomoting a public appeal for the relief or those suffering from unemployment. It is clear that the opposition v, hi on was responsible for such a foolish decision was organised from what is recognised as the headquarters of the Communist group and was not really representative of the hundreds of workers at present unemployed in Wellington. The public should get that fact clear beyond' dispute, the Labour members agree, and those of them who are city councillors have strongly advocated that all works already approved should be commenced and pushed ahead immediately and that everything possible ho done by evew available means to absorb in employment men who are at urgent unemployed. The attitude of the Trades Council in placing alternative proposals before the meeting was a perfectly reasonable course and could not be objected to. Thofe who apparently demonstrated their foolish pleasure at the temporary frustration of the effort on behalf of the iinomnloved were in no way associated with the trade union movement o r the Labour Party.