THE GENERAL ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19962, 2 June 1928, Page 12

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

LABOUR-LIBERAL FUSION. MR. F. N. BARTRAM'S SCORN. Thk suggestion that the Labour : and United Parties should form an alliance at the general election to secure the removal of the Reform Party from office was hotly scorned by Mr. F. N. Bartram, M.P. for Grey Lynn, in the course of a political address delivered at Morningsi.de. Mr. 0. Mason presided. "I oppose the idea that it is the duty of the Labour Party to pledge itself to link' up with any party simply because it clams to be opposed to the present Government," said Mr. Bartram. "There is absolutely no sense in putting Mr. Coates out of office in order to put in a disgruntled clique of the same tribe, which has been masquerading before the electors in different coloured feathers and war-paint. They are all anti-Labour and the more dangerous becau e they hypocritically smoodge to Labour.

"Why should the Labour Party, full of vigour and full of hope, marching perhaps slowly but surely on to victory, pledge itself to unite in any way with the creation of a coterie of disgruntled political adventurers who have been poking around the graveyards of the political past and so far have not collected enough, dry bones to piece together a decent skeleton ? The Labour Party will always vote for measures which- it thinks good for the working class as a whole, but actively participate in the squabbles of its enemies by taking sides I trust it never will." Mr. 0. Moller and Mr. K. K. Mullins have been appointed provincial organisers for the United Party.