IT ' W K"s> "Ffe /& asHan if i— «a* ""' LIBERAL'AND TORY" CANDIDATES ' IN' W&LLTNCF* T0& SAY THAT THfe LABOUR ".PARTY STAMDS FOE CIVIL WAR. , ... - ■ i To give colour-.to this they/quote from a report of a speech by M8..H.: E. HoLLA3t®ri li ,^^i l e-.MaoriMnd Worker/ ; June 28, 1922. This is the quotation appearing inia Liberal Candidate J & Election-Address:—' "Political-power woulitif' eventually be captured by the ■, workers, whether by : -' the orderly methods of knowledge ! advocated by the Labour Party, or by the process of civil war." . . •''_.'. ■".'■' •• HERE.'IS WHAT IfR/H. E. HOLLAND ACTUALLY • SAID;-— ■ ; ''The only alternative to the policy and tactics of the Labour Party was that of violence—the method of insurrection and civil war. For however it progressed Humanity would progress,' whether by the Labour Party's way or the other way. Political .power would.eventually be: .captured by .-' the workers whether hy the ordeiiy methods'of knowledge ■ advocated by the Labour Party or by the process of civil war. •HE WAS 'CONFIDENT THAT'THE GREAT CHANGES WHICH WERE . BOTH NECESSARY "ANN INEVITABLE WOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED BY ''PEACEABLE ' METHODS, SO FAR AS THE WORKERS .-WERE CON? CE'RNED. NO THOUGHTFUL. PERSON IN THE WORK- • JNG CLASS MOVEMENT WITH A KNOWLEDGE OF .THE HISTORICAL CONDITIONS. OF NEW-"ZEALAND •'.. WOULD .SERIOUSLY ADVOCATE CIVIL WAR, and the only danger of violence -was that which might come from, the Capitalist Class when the workers had won through at the • polls." THESE LIBERALS ~AND -TORIES' deliberately SUPPRESSED, a part of Mr. Holland's statement IN ORDER TO DECEIVE YOU.
The higher raa of tp-daj-. is not worrying about his sins at all, still less about tiiair puaishnTcnt; his mission, if ho ia good Tor anything, is to he lip and Solas. —Sir Olivet l<ofl£©>
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 3
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