PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE

Southland Times, Issue 17697, 8 July 1914, Page 5

PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE

MR WEBB’S ADVICE. (Special to the Times?). WELLINGTON, July 7. The need for an electoral arrangement with other progressive elements was urged bv Mr P. C. Webb (Grey), as a Labourite, speaking to the no-confidence motion in Parliament to-night. The member lor Grey announced his hearty approval of Sir Joseph Ward’s motion. "T want Mr Massey to remember this,” he said, ’’that before the last election he pleaded, 'Give me power and I’ll give the working classes a square deal.’ I want him to remember that if political corruption followed In the trail of the second ballot the corruption emanated from his side of the House and that he and his party had every available motor car for Messrs Veitch, Robertson and Payne. The object was to use these men; to make them degrade their manhood and then throw them on the scrap heap. There is no alliance, but common sense will decree that no man with a progressive idea in his head will be foolish enough to make it possible for a party to keep in power when it has violated every pledge.” Mr Webb drew hearty Opposition “Hear, hears” by declaring that he would have great pleasure in voting to out Masseyism, but he added (and this time the Ministerialists laughed), that he hoped to vote the Social Democrats in.