"THE RED MENACE"

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

"THE RED MENACE"

< The Profiteers' Alarm—Their Latest > Stunt '

Mr. L. M.'lsitt, in a dervish-like harangue before Christ mas, > called upon the faithfftl to organise against the Labour Party. To his cry the Tory papers immediately responded, and the squat- "' ters' ''Dominion" shrieked from a contents bill that the "Red ( Menace" was upon us and that organisation was necessary to ■ resist it. I We should have thought that this was what a capitalist editor ( would call a ''work of supererogation." For have not the pro- ( iiteers, the land sharks, and the usurers organised furiously against the "lied Feds/' the "Bolsheviks," the "Communists, , / -■ and what not for several years, and diligently warned the people against the aiiares set for their i'oet-by nefarious Labour agitators? % What lias the Tory press been doing all these years? What / was the object of Mr, Masscy's friends who have been engaged * In buying up practically every paper in the Dominion? Has not i the Welfare League laboured nobly, in the cause? And what ■< about the P.P.A. whose apostles have done so much to popularise \ the Flag and rout the evil-doors in the Labour Party? Have they γ-not been organising? ■t* They have, but they have "done their dash, ,, and a new / is. afoot, According to the "Dominion ,, this will be \ camouflaged as the "Non-Partisan League" (!), and Mr. E. J. 4 Price, lauded by the squatters', paper for his powers of "mob ' 4 -oratory,". will be its prophet. . .If.'' Who is this new crusader in the pay of Fat? He is one of J 'Mr. "foreigners." He was'•imported by. the ProhibiVitioriists from Australia to teach us, during the elections, the way /in which we shouM go," And having talked prohibition to-defeat, lie is now to lead the cohorts of capitalism to Victory. The saints 5 preserve us I m • .;.-■*■■ •-' __. ■ '■.. ■. " ■ * ''' To your tents} oh Labour! Your day is done! .