“THE CIVIL SERVICE AND THE ALLIANCE OF LABOUR.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 125, 2 May 1925, Page 5

“THE CIVIL SERVICE AND THE ALLIANCE OF LABOUR.”

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Supplementing my letter undei the above heading in your issue of 20ta inst. 1 think the importance of the subject in its relation to the welfare of the community generally is so vital that 1 offer no apologies for again referring to it. • That the school camouflaged under the title of “The Alliance of Labour,’ should so openly and so brazenly urge the eiujiloyees of uur important public services to ignore v defy the authority of their constitutional and responsible heads, and work so determinedly to bring about a revolution in these departments of the State, is beyond the power of tho sane elements in our community to comprehend. On the one hand we have an organisation calling itself “The Alliance of Labour,” which according to its own public professions (if we are to accept its paid secretary, Mr James Roberts, as its mouthpiece) is avowedly hostile to constitutional rule and which is doing its utmost, day in and day out, to subvert the Government (composed of the elect of the people) and its employees to its own dictates —in other words, it has the consummate cheek to openly uige the P. and T. and A.fei.R.S. to become its tools that it may the more easily be able to accomplish the destruction ot’ Civil Government.

Members of this ‘‘Alliance” arc forever preaching from their soap boxes the ideals of what they are pleased to term “True uemociacy,” “the Government of the people by the people for the people” and so on. Where in the world, I ask, is there to be found a truer democracy than we have in this God’s Own Country? Or a more liberal franchise than that by which we elect our Parliament? Yet these puppets of Alien Communism —a mere self-appoint-ed anti-state clique —seeks to destroy all this and subject the whole cominun ity, Government and all, to its dictation. There is not one instance on record where these class-conscious autocrats have successfully curried on the government of a country. It is one of the greatest weaknesses of the Labour movement that it is so lacking in constructive ability; whilst it pursues theoretical ideals, it fails to make use of the practical remedies all ready at its command. 1 have watched Labour for the past 35 years, and have long been convinced that if a country such as this Dominion could be governed successfully on the lines advocated by soap-box declamatory oratory, then Labour should have scored a big success long ere this. As to our P. and T. or tho A.S.R.B-* it is very hard for sane people to discover what either of these branches of the Public Service stand to gain by throwing in their lot with this so-called “Alliance of Labour.” But if members of these services are really desirous oi taking a step certain to compromise their relations with the public (their employers whom they are organised to serve) then they should affiliate as soon a.i possible. Nothing would tend more elicatually to shake public confidence in the services concerned, and 1 opine the members of the lutter would not be long in discovering that they had “Far len out of the frying pan into the lire. Precious little would the “A.O.L.’ be able to do for them except levy on them for the support of its political anti-state ilropaiiiiuda. —I am. etc., 1 1 LOYALIST WORKER. p.S.—l have postponed sending tn this letter for publication until now, knowing the pressure ou your space through the local elections. Hastings, 2/5/23.