INFORMATION

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 299, 22 November 1922, Page 7

INFORMATION

■■■>■■■>; ' I - "* - ' —'— PROHIBIT?ON: What is the Lab Our Party's attitude "towards Prohibition?

Tho Labour Party Pl'itlorm. provides for a Referendum aix all questions : affecting the whole of the. people. A referendum is being, taken ak to whether the Liquor "Trade shall be prohibited or not, and the Labour Party will support the decision, of the electors as, expressed at the polls. Individual members of the" Party are free to decide the question themselves. ' "" ', .. ' -.-,.' ■ LOYALTY: Is tho 'Labour Party loyal? What does the questioner mean? If he means is the Labour Party ,in favour of breaking up the parts of the "English-speaking world who desire to be in unity with one juiother, the answer is, NO! Tho Labour Party will do all that it can to cement the bond of Union between all the Dominions and the Old Country. The-Party will endeavour to extend th© number of peoples and nations who desire to live in accord with one another, until icll the people of the world are banded together in Unity as a League of Peoples. LIB-LAB-ISM: Has the Labour Party eny. arrangement or agreement with the Wilford Party? No! The Labour Party says that there are only two Parties in tho Dominion. Labour and Anti-Labour. Tho great fight between the other socalled Parties is a sham fight for the purpose of gulling the useful people of the Dominion. A vote cast for any other than a Labour cand-date is ; a vote against Labour. SOYIRTISM": Is tho Labour Party hi favour of a Soviet Form.-of .Government? NO! Tho Labour Party is committed to the. form of Government expressed in its Platform. The Party believes that the Laws should he made by the men elected by the majority of the people, and will abide by the w-11 of the people. VIOLENCE; Is the Labour Party in favour of Revolution by Violence? NO! The Labour Party is in favour of Transformation by education. Every member of the Party knows that until the people are educated up to the need for a change of system, and are conversant with the methods to be adopted, no change can be successful. The Labour Party depends for its support upon an educated and understanding democracy, and will by propaganda, use all its power to bring before the peocple the ideal of Service as a basis for- Society. ELECTORAL: What'do you mea n by Proportional Representation? Proportional Representation means representation according to the strength of each Party. (It is in operation, for either Municipal or Parliamentary Elections in Belgium, Denmark, Tasmania, Ireland, Scotland, Italy Germany, Sweden, Holland, Finland,, Austria. Poland, Greater" Serbia and Jugo-Slav-'a.