LABOUR POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 8, 8 December 1936, Page 2

LABOUR POLITICS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Cowper said that variety was the spice of life; it gave a flavour. Mr Cbristensen admits in your issue of the 3rd hist, that the past has been unsavoury and attempts to flavour his epistle with Contes-Forbes ingredients with the hope that the dope can be swallowed as easily as the medicine that was handed around the Opera House recently. Mr Cbristensen has not yet explained the reason for cancelling the Palmerston North Labour Representation Committee some months previous to the election. Why were the workers denied the right to select their own Labour candidate, and why the necessity for a salaried organiser in the Palmerston North district when there is compulsory unonism on the Statute Book? In the absence of a Labour Representation Committee, will lie tell the workers what method, or system, he will adopt to select the Labour candidates for our next municipal election? Air Cbristensen being the chief publicity officer for the party can surely give a straight-out reply. 1 also expected to see Mr Christenseii leading his warriors to the polling, booth to assist the promoters of the airport loan to advance our city, and I was disappointed not to find Mr J. Hodgens, M P carrying his share of progress; but it was evident that those two citizens or Labour knights had put thenSocialistic engine into reverse, and they can now put forward a host of explanations if they wish, but a mist as thick as "pea soup" will not prevent intelligent citizens from seeing the "picture." „ , . , ~ Mr Christenseii delves into mathematics and attempts to teach those who read his epistle how to multiply nothing with nothing, and treats them to his usual lullaby, thinking that ticaverage worker has not got past the leoHiing a"e, Hiid I can picture him sit■tin., by the fire, having a hearty augh when he reads his correspondence. same as he does when he cracks a joke or tells a story. It is obvious that 1 must use the nome-de-plumc "On With the Fight" lest I foul the henchmen of the Socialisation of the means ot production, distribution and exchange Industry that is being hitched on to evcrvdav life The day has arrived when 51 is "pinched" and criticism ,f various people and their business methods of controlling public affairs are ?hreatened. It is only a matter of time and Oliver Cromwell will have nothing „V+nin tvnes of humans in New ZeaA recent meeting in the Opera ■a « wis a good examolc. Tt was H T? " n,o form" t.rvards men who rfom a 'non-remunerative duty to tW fellow citizens, also a tirade of abuse towards a few honest employees. -I am, wiTH THE rIGHT .