“WRECKERS INSIDE THE PARTY"
DR McMILLAN’S WARNING TO LABOUR Addressing the Labour Party Debating Club on “Labour and War Finance” on Sunday evening, Dr D. G. McMillan, MJ 3 ., warned Labour Party members that their opponents could defeat them only from within, and not from without the party, savs The Otago Daily Times. The democratic basis of the Labour Party made it possible, he said, for its opponent: to use the party’s democratic machinery to hold up its programme. “Mr Semple and Mr Webb have been warning members against the opponents outside the party,” Dr McMillan said, “but it is my opinion that the wreckers and National Party agents who have got inside the party are far more dangerous. To give but one example: Everybody knows that the nationalization of the Bank of New Zealand has been in our platform for years, and yet since we have been the Government, wreckers and National Party agents within the party have done their best to prevent that plank being put into effect.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23991, 5 December 1939, Page 8
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