Flutter at Trades Hall

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6838, 20 April 1932, Page 7

Flutter at Trades Hall

REV. RUTH CHALLENGED. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 19. The comments of the Rev. T. E. Ruth, cabled yesterday, aroused indignation a.mong union secretaries at the Trades Hall. Tho Communist secretary of the Labour Council, Mr J. S. Garden, who was formerly a Baptist minister, replied to Mr Ruth’s statements by challenging him to allow him to take the pulpit .-next Sunday to speak on the text: “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake: Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in lieavejn.”

At the Pitt Street Congregational Church, the Rev. T. E. Ruth denounced the Lang Government as corrupt. “The police arc all right,” he said, “but their masters, with their warped idea of justice, their apparent protection of Communists, their a;n , i-'"~~ :i ~ to loyalists, their Soviet legislation, their tin hare scandals, and their policy of default and repudiation —these political masters of the police —I say, are all wrong. .• . For months I have been amazed at the supine surrender by the citizens of this State to a scries of immoral political actions.” Mr Ruth concluded: “There is sufficient manpower in the New Guard, if consecrated to the cause of Christ ajtud the cause of the State, to save New South Wales. ”