“RIDING TO ORDERS”
LABOR PARTY CRITICISED MEMBER WARNS FARMERS (Parliamentary, Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. It wna quite clear that the Labqi Party had to ride to orders given to it by the industrial elements, said Mr. W. J. Poison (Stratford) during the Budget debate in the House of Representatives yesterday. Tho policy of the Labor Party, he added, was formulated by 400 trade unions which had nothing in common with tho farmer. Not one member of the party in. the .. House could claim, to' represent, the farmer, but the party put out a plan and expected the fanners to swallow it.
He was quite satisfied that the farmers would not swallow it. They would not agree to the abolition of tho country quota and allow job control to have full play in industry again. “We know that the Labor Party hns Invariably stood for high tariffs,” Mr. Poison continued. “They want to maintain tho hothouse industries in the cities ” A Labor member: Name ono.
Mr. Poison: I’m not suggesting! that the present industries are hothouse industries, but if Labor gets control the tariff will go up. We will have hothouse industries. It would bo the maddest of folly for tlie farming community to agree, for one moment, to any of the proposals which the Labor Party is putting forward.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18817, 21 September 1935, Page 5
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