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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 15

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NON-SOCIALIST FORCES LESSON OF MANUKAU MR. DOI'DGE’S WARNING (Par Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “There is a lesson to bo learned from the Manuk.au election by the lion-socialistic forces ol the Dominion, said Mr. F. W. Doidge, in an address -to. campaign, workers (if the Auckland National Party headquarters to-day. “ We were out-manoeuvred at every turn,” he said. “For every worker, my labour opponent had ten; for every motor car, he had three.” Mr. Doidge said that the organisation in Manukau was a foretaste of what would happen at the next general election, when Labour would have the bcilpfit of union funds through compulsory unionism. The .law permitted a contribution of up to Is a week, but if the average was sixpence the yield would be £500,000 a year.

.. He sqiil it was no good, to sit bac-k and await the swing of the political pendulum, and a laissez faire policy -would -bo suicide. The Socialists would spend the next two years organising as never before, and with a £1,000,000 fighting fund would build •up .an almost impregnable position. If they were successful in the next election, the country quota, would go, and there would be a Socialist Government in power in perpetuity. Mr. Doidge said the National Party must build now and quickly, or they would pay a penalty no sane, person would care to contemplate.