CARRY ON

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 1, 3 January 1923, Page 5

CARRY ON

By T. BRINDLE

/The result of the recent G-enerai Election from the viewpoint of the New Zealand Labour Party is exceedingly encouraging aud full of promise for- the future. The Labour Party has emerged from the poison gas attack of. ciap'talIsm and, its* battalions of spongers and tools. wiJx its banner ' floating triumphantly in the Parl/iament of this country, and there reflecting the awakened social consciousness of the working class resenting M no uncertain manner the* incompetent class legislation oL' the Massey Government, who have during the whole of 'their years cf power, operated sedulously and rolcly for the big exploiting com-. bines and rings dominating the economic life of ihe people. Hcd the ( faction shown any other result than a splendid Labour advance, i; would have been a remarkable example of thespiritlessness of the average man and woman in New Zealand. Although Ino advance has been great "and glorious, much yet remaps to ho done before the rebuilding of a be-iter • social and economic system" ca-j really begin. Much propaganda! must, be done throughout; the whel? j r:umtry. Labour Party branches nui.-t. bo formed in • every electorate. not a ftw weeks previous to r.n dec- J ti<rn, but immediately in order to carry on tho very necessary education among the people of what the r?al aims and objects of ihe Labour Party are. Th's cr.iii only be done- effectively j t'r.-ough the channel of the National Office, consequently it. behoves all Labour sympathisers to extend the j u ; .:nosf assistance to the National! Executive in the essential work ofi Making the polLical organisation of j L:i':our 3 more formidable and sue-! C.---lUI opponent of the present classI) and stupid rulers of the country. The splendid to the call P'.:ul;> by the National Office during the past six months has enabled the j pj-cu-etary to do work that has re- j denuded wi.h credit to the whole i country, and contributed largely to: V,',-'; successful return of a doubled! representation of Labour members to j tli3 House of Parliament. j Tins vrprk must be continued and' made a permanent feature of the National Labour Party, each week and j year untU the Labour movement, witli i its ideal of .1 reconstructed .society. becomes the dominant force. Vested Interests spend money like! •p/ater in work of contusing and confounding the minds of the r?'jp!e. 'Thousands of pounas-wili be freely give n m order to undo the good! work of Labour. ~\\'e can be-it them back if ihe b.elievers in Labour's cause will .give their ungrudgingi moral and financial support. Unfor-j t.iautely i n the past -ill".-has been the} rale for the people to go to sleep politically during the intervening years between elections and to lapse ir.to apa;hy and It is the wish of the National Executive that this state of affairs should be impossible in the future, by increasing offorts in the spread of Labour's gospel thrqugh the platform and 1 itera: ure. so that when next election chines it Avill.bc possible to have a Labour candidate for every seat in Kew Z:aland. We must set out in> earnest 10 v>'.n the country for Labour. This will require < L ll uhe 'energy ] we ca.n give, therefore, let us keen | the enthusiasm o£ the past fewj monuhs and there is no power tv! prevent the culmination of the object in view. We see the same awnken'mg going -on throughout the British Empire. In j Britain many precious lives have been .sacrificed to bring the people to a realisation of their collective strength and we find for the first time i.n the history of Tory England the people's party occupying the official opposition benches in the chamber that has pceii their sorrows and miseries flouted and ignored by 'ihe privileged clashes who have for many weary years monopolised tts functions. .The people of New Zealand must lie prepare.d t o march with the people of other parts" of the Empire to the conquest of the power that will ru,ake international hatred and jealousy a thing of the past. Whilst -we are content to leave the situation so fraught with danger, we never know when in a day the work of years may be Swept aside through the menace of! conflicting groups* of international financiers struggling with each other for the spoil of nations. • Let all L.R.C.s get on with the work of organisation and working class unity. Let Labour Party Branches set themselves the task of increased propaganda activities so that \v& may see aa early fruition, to (the aspitatjons apd clrewxis that makes the battle.of labour siffclk a. gloriowis on*. "Now: je %t» day arid iw>w'a the hoyLrj* _ ~—-

See thiat the National Office is pro-. vide'd with, the sinews to carry on humanity's .winning flght, for the harvest is ready -and the reapers aw waiting to garner the golden grains of beauty, contentment and joy, that were sown in the fields of human endeavour by the early pioneero of freedom afcd justice, who "did tibieir jwork-**stjid went away, before the bright sun brought tho day." - Don't sit* down, but'keep movies— yi€f (junker Ui* bjeuexX