POINTS FROM SPEECHES

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 299, 22 November 1922, Page 15

POINTS FROM SPEECHES

WILFOBI> AZfD The Liberal Party had never ddna anything since the' Labour section pulled out of it. The v real Liberal Party of the Seddon days,, when all the good work was done, had the Labour men strong behind it, and when the Liberal Partf lost faith in the Labour representatives the Liberal movement died. The Liberal Party could never be resuscitated unless the Labour 'Party allied itself to it. The Leader of the Liberal, Party was as hostile to the Labour Party, as w;as Mr. Massey himself."—J. W. MUNRO, Dunedin North. ' . ■"' '« .# '._?.'.'«■- GRASPING. SHIPPING* COMBIIfE. The raid on wages through the Arbitration Court was ostensibly to reduce the cost of living. There ivas never a greater stain ;br make-believe. Wages had fallen to the extent of nearly £4,000,0*50 in the last twelve months, yet practically ail the institutions which had benefited had maintained their previous charges for their services or goods. It cost in waterside labour one penny to put a carcase of mutton board, a? Home boat. Supposing the watersiders' wages were reduced by 25 per cent., what appreciable difference would that make to the farmer who produced the mutton or to the consumer in London who ultimately ate it? -Everybody knew that the reduction would be passed neither backwards; nor,forwards, butbe swallowed up by the shipping in-terests.—-H. E. COMBS, Wellington North. .*..# -.-■»-. «■ STUPmiTT -of; CAPITALISM. In the first nine months of 1920, New Zealand exported £35,185,000 worth ;of products. That . was a year of boom, and prosperity. In the corresponding nine months -of 1922, New Zealand exported £35,----145,000 Worth of products, yet this is a year of depression and unemployment. As the value of our products per article is lower to-day than it was in 1920, he asserted that New Zealand was producing more, and yet could not find work for its citizens as fl did in 1920, when it produced less. The real cause of our difficulties today was with the financiers, whom he declared were rigging the situation to suit their own selfish ends, and the sooner the people took away from 'hern the control they now possessed and placed it in the hands of men answerable to the will of the majority of citi-rens the better it would be for all concerned.—H. E. COMBS, Wellington North. «•*> * ■-•* » A BABMISSEE. Mr. Nash, my Tory opponent, is a noted kisser of the babies and a Judge of their Qualities at the shows. But" when Massey raised the Customs taxation on babies' foods, perambulators, and feeding bottles he voted for the increased tax. Ho kissed the. worker's baby and then taxed its food. How's ••'that* for vote-catching?—J. HODGENS, Palmerston North. .*•..» •*.-•- .H'Uin-JUG. Colonel Mitchell let fall this filiating thought the other night at Newtown: "The advent of extreme thought has split the Labour ranks, and has driven the average working man over ib the Conservatives." Ho then proceeded to remark that "Conservatism will reign supreme bo long frighten all the decent people over to It." What a precious piece of humbug! If these things be true, why should he worry, seeing that hevoteV •wtth "extreme Conservatism" • nin3 times out of ten? Fancy a politician backed by all the Massey elements In the constituency beslobbering ovjr tho fate of the Labour Party, so much embarrassed by its own convictions! To assuage his grief he thereupon flapped the flag in the truest Massey fashion.. '.-..: