LABOUR UNITY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 146, 5 June 1913, Page 5

LABOUR UNITY.

VIEWS OF -MR. VEITCH. M.P. Wanganui, June 3. Speaking on ’ National Housekeeping” to tin- Mathison Street Church Literary Society lasi evening, Mr. W. A. Veitch.. M.P.. after reference to the cost of li»mg and its cam os, proceeded condemn the extremist policy indulged in by a* c< rtain sietii.-n of the people. There were those in the Labour party, he ? :id. who did not believe in sending me:! !•' Parliament to help put : kings right. Tin y would rather wait till things g<-t su bad that a-ro-v. Put mil would !>e the outcome. Others desired to bring about industrial upheavals. He condemned these policies, and said he had no sympathy with st rikt s. The w-iy out was for the workers l" combine pn’iticalit and work whole-heartedly to get iheir platform adopted plank by plank. They niii’i not imagine that t hex were going to get tl «■ whole of their platform adopted either to-day or to-morrow, and the sooner that was recognised tin? bettor. In answer to a question as to whether he was in favour of the I nity proposals passed m the early part ’t.f tlie year. Mr. Veitch r< plied :"I cannot say. I shall attend a centeren.ee in July, and say frankly what 1 think about the matter. It I find tU’

patty ready for reascnaWe propio sals I shall be with them, but i" the ;.i--titude of the party is to be ilie attitude shown in the Waihi strike then I most certainly shall not.