The Maoriland Worker WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1922 H. E HOLLAND'S MESSAGE

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 299, 22 November 1922, Page 4

The Maoriland Worker WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1922 H. E HOLLAND'S MESSAGE

Never before have the issues been so clearly drawn m in the contest which is to be decided on December 7. Labour, with its clearly-stated objective and its platform with every plank designed to reach that objective, stands face to face with the Massey Party—the party of reactionary politics and vested interests. Every vote cast against Labour—whether it be cast for miscalled Independent or liberal—is a vote cast for Hr. Massey in the end. The labour Party, boldly proclaiming that its ultimate aim is Social Service, speaks in the name of the whole of the industrially and politically organised workers; in the name of the very best of the working-class womanhood; in the name of the most progressive among the intellectuals; in the name of all who labour with hand or brain. ,We come pleading the cause of all who are weayy and heavy laden. tWe do not come, like the professional politicians, on bended knees begging, praying for votes.... We come with our eyes to the sunlight, demanding the votes, demanding the cooperation, of all who think progressively, all who earn their bread hy the sweat of their brow. And to the people of New Zealand we give a pledge that will be honoured to the letter. On the day the Labour Movement achieves political power we shall commence to write anew the laws :of New Zealand—we shall endeavour to effect an economic .transformation. No longer shall the laws be written in the narrow class interests in which the Massey Government has written and is writing them. Labour will write the laws in the interest of the men whose labour of hand or brain builds the wealth of the nation, in the interest of the women who are the mothers of the people, and above all in the interest of the children of to-day who are destined $o be the citizens of to-morrow. Let the workers so mark their ballots that December 7 will see the record of Labour's greatest political triumph in Maonland. H. E. HOLLAND, Chairman, Parliamentary Labour Party. Westport, November 16.