MANUKAU ELECTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 2 October 1936, Page 7

MANUKAU ELECTION

NATIONALIST MEMBER OUTMANOEUVRED WARNING TO PARTY (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day. “There is a lesson to be learned from the Manukau election by the non-Socialistic forces of the Dominion,” said Mr F. W. Doidge, in an address to campaign helpers to-day at the Auckland National Party headquarters. “We were outmanoeuvred at every turn,” he said. “For every worker my Labour opponent had ten; for every motor car he had three.” Mr Doidge said that the organisation in the Manukau election was a foretaste of what would happen at the next General Election when Labour would have the benefit of union funds through compulsory unionism. The law permitted a contribution up to a shilling a week, but if the average was sixpence it would yield £500,000 a year. He said it would not do to sit back and await the swing of the political pendulum, and a laissez faire policy was suicide. The Socialists would spend the next two years organising as never before, and with a million sterling fighting fund would build up an almost impregnable position. Mr Doidge said that the National Party must build now and quickly, or they would pay a penalty no sane person would care to contemplate.