UNITED LABOUR PARTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14985, 6 May 1912, Page 5

UNITED LABOUR PARTY.

Mr. W. T. Mills spoke to a full house at the Town Hall lust night on the subject of tho United Labour party and its fighting platform. Mr. Mills said that an organisation necessarily involved a definite membership, a responsible official force, and a definite purpose as an excuse for its existence. He contended that a political party should be such an organisation, but maintained that the usual political party had no scheme of persona,! memberships, was not officered by men who were responsible to the rank and file for their actions, and had no definite proposals with regard to which they were all agreed. Proceeding, Mr. Mills said that the United Labour party, however, had. provided a way by which any useful person could become a member of the party through the organisation of the occupation in which be was employed; that the central administrative body was to be composed of those who had beeu found to be tho responsible and capable men in the regular trades or occupational organisation in which they themselves wore engaged. In conclusion, he contended that the platform of a party so constituted must necessarily have the united support of ail the useful people in all occupations, because the interests of all these, as involved in public matters, were the same, while they were directly opposed to every possible form of monopolistic extortion.