ANOTHER SIDE OF THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.
(To the Editor “N.Z. Times.”) Sir, —Your leader of Saturday, 15th instant, touches a vital point of the British situation affecting Labour, and you do well to emphasise it. The paradox of British workmen voting for free trade whilst large numhnm of them are rushing to protectionist America because of the nigh wages there, oan be added to. These British wariomen are trying to gat into a ooox>* try where there is no political Labous Party, and, when admitted to Arne* rica, join in with the American Federation of Labour, which emphatically objects to dealing with politics cm thd basis of class partisanship. fYirther, we find that when English workmen come to the dominions 'they seem to leave their worship, trada. lx** hind. • ' Some anomalies raise a donbt whether, after all, it is Labour at that votes free trade. If the mind bf the people was expressed through a straight-out referendum, wo sdßm bar surprised at the result. It is notable that the Labour Party in tfie recent elections did not declare positively fur free trade or protection, but simply affirmed that protection would not remedy the existing state of unemployment. The election was not a straight (Best* on any one issue. N.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE,
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11705, 18 December 1923, Page 11
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211ANOTHER SIDE OF THE BRITISH ELECTIONS. New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11705, 18 December 1923, Page 11
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