THE NEW ZEALAND LEGION AND PARTY POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21979, 14 June 1933, Page 13

THE NEW ZEALAND LEGION AND PARTY POLITICS

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —When I attack anyone’s personal character I shall certainly sign my name, but when dealing in principles and generalities a pseudonym will do for me. Sometimes in dealing with principles and generalities it is necessary to go down to personalities. Another reason why Ido not sign my correct name is that there are more unscrupulous people behind the Labour Party than behind any other party of which I know, who, if they could not silence me one way, might re«qrt~to other means, including persecution. Dr M'Millan dreams that I am a fellow-thinker of the Nazis. I can assure him I am nothing of the kind, but, being a common worker, thousands of miles away, I can only voice my disapproval of their methods. My motto is, “Live and let live,” even in the case of an Australian black , who is supposed to be one of the lowest-cultured people on earth. Dr M'Millan wanders away back to Sir Roger Casement, the spy and traitor who was shot in the Tower of London for trying to stab Britain in the back. Any report of his would need to be substantiated before I would believe a word of •it. Take one sentence: “ Obtained, 4000 tons of rubber at a cost of 30,000 lives.” I cannot credit that.

Getting back to the old subject, I ask Dr M'Mulan if the workers in New South Wales are any better off than we are here after they have had a number of Labour Governments over there? Perhaps 'he could also tell us what interest those States whose Labour Governments obtained loans in America are paying. We have that much to be thankful for in this country. Now, Sir, I will attempt to show Dr MTVlillan that his ideas and mine are not so very far apart after all. I have never met a Labour member yet who did not favour co-operation. What is there to stop the workers from obtaining these supposed millions of profits of their labours? I have always been in favour of co-operation, but I > \now beforehand there are not the profits in commerce and industry that a good many workers believe. The only reason that I can see why the Labour Party does not take up co-operation is that it would not be in its interests. The Labour Party would not be required, nor would our trade unions.— l am, etc., Worker. June 10.