“SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 November 1924, Page 4

“SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL.”

(To the Editor. Sir,—The exciting and not less Cheering election results which have Deen cabled to us from the Motherland reveal the prophetic nature of the Leader in your issue of 21st ulto., bearing the above heading. In on© of the opening sentences, referring to the British Premier, you expressed the following opinion; ca F be no doubt whatever a $ to his having supped on dangerously intimate terms, that is, at th© end of rather a short-handled spoon, with th© deni of Russian Communism, and there can be but little that he is like to find himself rather badly scorched by such close proximity to his sulphurous majesty.” Mr. MacDonald’s professed desire to ■ecure friendly relations with Russia was, of course, commendable enough. But when in conference with th© Russian delegates he made it obvious that he was prepared to sacrifice the intere«tS u • v IIS own countr V (the destinies of which were for th© time being entrusted to his care} in an attempt to Satisfy the cravings of alibn trouble-brewers, who hav© time and again declared it to be their desire and intention to break up the British constitution and drag Britishers to the rootstool of Moscow dictators. Mr. MacDonald was prepared to furnish them with millions of British money, the better to enable them to accomplish their devilish schemes'but this money let us h °Pe •* s Pent in re“Btabhshmg prosperity throughout dur Empire. note in the last issue J; or iier” several columns glorifying Mr. MacDonald’s Russian policy—the policy which the English ejectors have so emphatically turned down. We need not wonder at this attitude of the "Worker.” knowing as we do, that it is controlled by the extreme element in Labour, in harmony with the same element in the Old Country, which is no doubt responsible for the downfall of the first British Labour Government. • ?> no fte most satisfactory phases in the English election results ha s been the heavy almost overwhelming vote in support of stable government recorded in the industrial centres where the Labour vote preponderates.' This may surely be taken to indicate that British labour generally is beginning to realise how very badly it is being led. and. that it is rapidly losing confidence in its leaders—they have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.” The MacDonald Governmeat has been in office quite lon • enough to demonstrate the fact that they are just as incapable of working miracles in the interests of the class they represent as n.Government of ap other party—and so it will be in this Dominion. -The more we are threatened with A Labour Government dominated »v the extreme, wing in the party, the more unstable. will the country become, The demand for workers will decrease instead of increase because controllers of capital, the life, blood of all industry, will hang on to it, Jacking confidence tief VeSt lt 10 labour - em Ployiiig indusMr. MacDonald appealed to the electorate to endorse his policy; he has his answer to that appeal—“ Get out.” at answer, will echo through the British Empire—let Labour heed the writing on the wall” and set its house in order, easting put into outer, darkness the devils of Communism and anarchy refusing them bread and meat any longer or a place at Labour’s table, which should be spread with good tilings for the honest working man ano those dependent on him.—Yours, etc „ . LOYALIST WORKER, Hastings, 3/11/24.