MR T.M. WILFORD
VISIT TO OAMARU. A MEETING OF WORKERS. (P«s Umtren Press Association.) OAMARU. March 21. Mr T. M. Wilford. who is visiting Oamaru, mot a committee of Liberal supporters this afternoon, and was engaged arranging an organisation for the new progressive party l<-'d by him. In the evening, at tho invitation of Mr Marshall Robinson, president of the North Otago Labour Council, an old committeeman from Brooklyn (Wellington), ho met a. full hall, principally of workers, to explain tlie attitude of the new party towards the workers of New Zealand. Mr Wilford, who was enthusiastically received, stated that the new party stood against Mr Massey and Mr Holland : that his party was opposed to tho extremists of both piarties; that his party stood for King and Empire, and against Bolshevism or Red Feds; that it stood for nationality and not internationalism ; that ho believed production was tho only source from which labour could lie paid, and without production the workers would go on riding on a merry-go-round and get off where they started; and that they stood for the Liberalism of Richard John Seddon. Mr Wilford leaves to-morrow for Timaru, and will go to Termika on Thursday.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18510, 22 March 1922, Page 5
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