CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2065, 9 December 1919, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

■ (To the Editor.) Sir. —I notice in yottr issue of Saturday an excerpt from the Rangitikei Advocate, which misconstrues a statement made by me at Bulls on Monday evening last, in reference to the Labour Party .candidates being led by Messrs Holland, Semple and Fraser. The statement that I did make was the same as I have made on every platform in the electorate, “that the Labour candidates know no leaders,” but are responsible to the people, anfFtbe platform of the Party. This platform I have endeavoured to explain' to the people with sotW measure of success. 'ln referring'to the campaign in the press against Messrs Holland, Semple and Fraser, Fused a suppositions case, and said, “even were these men extremists” each bad held a scat in Parliament, and were returned by a majority vole of the people, and if those people wished to be.represented by either of these men, who would say them nay; I feel, Mr Editor,-that the people realise Dial the aim of the Labour I’arty is to build up such a political machine that the people themselves shall retain the power of government in their own hands all the time, instead of fdr only one day in three years, as at present. As regards the “go-slow” policy, 1 made the same statement as in Foxton, that if the conditions on the coalfields were improved, and the miners given some responsibility in the management of the mines, as suggested jjy ffoe Coal Commission in this country, and the Sankey Commission in England, the “go-slow” policy would soon be a tiling of the past. . On the Liquor question I stand to the plank in the Labour .Party’s platform, which reads as follows: “That the question of. State Control be. placed on tin* ballot paper when the referendum is taken on the liquor question, in the event of three or more i-- in - being placed on the ballot paper, voting .'-hall be in order of preference. —! am, etc., A. C. HILLIER, Shannon, 3.lth Deo.. 1!)1!).