A REVOLUTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19550, 5 August 1925, Page 6

A REVOLUTION.

ME MUNEO’S PEEDICTION. LABOUR’S POSITION. (From Ouh Own Coebebpondent.) WELLINGTON, August 4. Mr J. W. Munro, the Labour member for Dunedin North, in his speech on the Budget to-night, made a prophesy. Ha said the Labour Party had been called extremists. Some people said the Bible in Schools would bring about a better social system. They could, however, put all their Bibles in their schools and use all the influence and power of the press, but unless ithey got more progress along constitutional lines by getting more Labour members in the House so as to bring about a more equitable position of society, then they would have a revolution in. this country, and no Labour Party would bring it about.' It would be brought about by the injustice perpetrated upon the masses of the people in this country. He charged the Government with having taken £3,000,000 out of the pockets of the hare worked people of this country, and of having handed it over to the big landed proprietors —(Labour hear, hears!) —and they were proud of it. They claimed credit for having reduced taxation. It was for the Labour Party to get on the platfoiin and tell the people how they were being dealt with. The member for Egmont had said that the big business interests had practically given their orders to both the Government and the opposition parties to get together and fight Labour. An Hon. Member: Extreme Labour.

Mr Munro reiterated that if they were not going to gain ground constitutionally they were going to have a revolution in this country—not incited by the Labour agitator but because of the fact that the people had been absolutely robbed in the past and misled by the press and the spurious promises of the Reform Party. He pleaded with the Prime Minister to break away from his party shibboleths and realise that New Zealand was not for some of the people, but for the whole of the people—(Hear, hears! from both Reform and Liberal Benches).