LABOUR AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21940, 29 April 1933, Page 15

LABOUR AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

, TO THE EDITOR. ■ : Sir, —On the memorable occasion when the American ' fleet visited New Zealand; the Otago Labour Council carried the foi-, lowing resolution:— That this meeting of the Otago labour Council; without distinguishing between the naval power of the United States and that of -any other capitalist State, stands by the Labour movement in declaring Its ■ emphatic hostility ■ : to. the visit of the American fleet'to New Zealand; that wa request our representatives both in the industrial and political movement to re-, fraln from participation in the welcome , to the deet; and we call upon them to . expose the lavish expenditure of wealth upon the entertainment of the fleet, as such money could be better spent In providing better, houses for the New Zealand workers. We also call on the , Alliance of Labour and.' .the Labour Party to demand the release of'American classwar prisoners, and the immediate recall of the capitalistic powers who are at. present mprdering and plundering the working class of China. V My memory, whilst failing to recall any convulsion resultant upon this vehement bombast, prompts the reflection that for all the Labour Council cares the British prisoners in Russia, victims of the recent .farcical trial, can ’work out their, own salvation; whilst the Labour ticket for the City Council, which I'judge to be carefully selected from the local group known , as the Friends Of. the Soviet Union (a body closely associated with the U.S.S.R. and its useful ally; the Third Titter- . national) is likewise am, etc. Dunedin, April 27. , , Leith. .