COMPULSORY TRAINING.
Sir,—Your correspondent "Fair Play" is much concerned over our proposed meeting. If he comes along he will hear a good deal concerning the futility of the present system of training as a means of defence. As to "industrial upheavals," I would point out that we have "misery arid distress" here among the workers now, without strikes or revolutions. The vast army of unemployed know full well the cause of their trouble, and militarism is neither the cure rot preventive. His reference to Russian activities serves no purpose except aa publicity for the Soviet. Does he not know that the "Bolshevik Bogie" is worked out, and lie will need something more convincing if he wishes to influence men and women of sense and understanding His insinuation concerning cash only causes a smile at his credulity, while his statements regarding trade unionism has about the same amount of truth in it. The object of our meeting is to see that the boys and young men of the Dominion get fair play, and we are not to be deterred by partisans u* militarism. M. B. Soljak, President. Auckland Women's Branch, N.Z. Labour P&rty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19958, 29 May 1928, Page 12
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