“DUNSTAN’S” LABOUR POLICY.

Northern Advocate, 26 May 1934, Page 3

“DUNSTAN’S” LABOUR POLICY.

(To the Editor). Sir, —Your correspondent, •‘Dunstau, ’’ in your columns recently, attucks Labour's policy, and wants, to know bow that party would shape if invested with the Government of the country. How would they raise the farmer out of his difficulty.' Would they do it with prejudice, and thus set one class against the other.’ lie seems to be blinded by his own superior judgment, and as one who is leaning towards Reform like the Tower d 7 Piza. In the course of his dissertation he has not adduced any sane reason why the country should not give Labour a trial. I might say right here that I do not believe in party government, as it has outlived its use fulness It's u costly toy for a nation to pay £9O per hour for a lot of talk embalmed in “Hansard," which is all that this suffering country gets for it. In liis concluding remarks, ho unfortunately refers to the 191."' strike. .1. presume from this lie was one of the special constables who look 10/- a day ami a baton to bludgeon industrialists into submission. Tho writer of this epistle lived in a farming community, and refused an offer of 10/- a day and a, horse to get tho merchants’ stuff away. The years have passed, and F am proud of the part I took in the ]9l-°. strike. 1 may say, in conclusion, that the men who went from that district were mostly farmers’ helpers. A few farmers went to leaven the lump. The merchants they fought for put up the price of fertilisers by 10/- per ton to express their appreciation of the work done in the cause of right and justice, even to the forming of bogus unions. I sincerely trust that “l)uustan," as he terms himself, is justly proud of the fact. —L am, etc., TE PIKT HAL.