SUPPORT FOR LABOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23123, 23 August 1938, Page 15

SUPPORT FOR LABOUR

ATTITUDE OF COMMUNISTS the goal of socialism [by telegraph—OWN- correspondent] WELLINGTON, Monday Supporting the Labour Government and appealing to electors to vote Labour at the forthcoming general election, members of the Communist Party, at a meeting held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, last night, declared that thov stood four-square behind the objective of returning the present GovCr it n< wm stated that the Communist Party realised that the Labour .Government had no intention of introducing Communism in New Zealand, and that there was no justification foi the suggestion made by political opp°ncrit s that the present Government had Com"Sft.'ltß*. Mid the National Partv had raised the battle-cry of Socialism versus freedom and private enterprise. It was incorrect, he added, to say that Socialism was one of the issues of the forthcoming election. New Sanders as a majority did not yet want Socialism, although it would come when the Communist Partv had been built up. What New Zealanclcrs wanted wire peace, prosperity and freedom The Red bogey had been used in evei. country of the world to stop electors from supporting a progressive Governissue this warning,'' said the sneaker. "The Labour Government must be ever vigilant. The price of liberty if eternal vigilance, and it. is not sufficient for the Labour Government to rest on tlio merit of its performances."