POLITICAL SITUATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 March 1930, Page 7

POLITICAL SITUATION

SPEECH BY MR HOLLAND--r/' ELECTION POSSIBLE THIS YEAR (By Telegraph—Press Association),,. T ,WESTPORT, This Day/; ■>' The Buller Labour Representation Committee arranged for Mr Holland," 1 Leader of the Labour Party, to aaVI dress industrial unions in the • Buller- u electorate on the political situation and • the Labour Party*s national -campaigh. «jj In line with this arrangement Mr Hoi- |« land spoke before a meeting of the A West-port General Labourers' Union-last tjj evening, when he reaffirmed ihis state- »» ment made recently to the Westport ," branch of the Labour Party. He. warn- i> ed unionists that an election was quite -.;. possible before the end of the present h year, and urged that it was their clear « duty to stand prepared. If the Reform M Party should again come into power 'it & would of course mean a reversion to Ji that partv's wages policy of 12s and 6| 9s a day, and the United Party's failure *J left them with no alternative ,whatever M but to strive to place a Labour Govern- Jl ment on the Treasury benches. ' •-. Sjj The meeting unanimously resolved on.. JJ a minimum contribution of ss. per mem- U her to the Labour Party's national cam- ii paign fund within a stated period and jt also pledged the union to give every ~ support to the party in the event of M an election, coming. ' • «.» This week-end Mr Holland isaddress- 'J ing meetings of various miners' unions.