EXTREMISTS MUST BE CURBED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 1

EXTREMISTS MUST BE CURBED

MR. BRUCE ONJtAILWAY STRIKE MOBILISING PUBLIC AGAINST UNRLST By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 10.10 a.m. MELBOURNE, To-day. rE Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Bruce) referring to the Queensland trouble, said that the dispute was the exemplification of an nnrest which had permeated, the world since the war. It was an unrest against which public opinion must be firmly mobilised. If it were permitted to continue, it would mean the destruction of Constitutional Government and the lowering of the standard of living.

/v\' one side, said Mr. Bruce, was v" ranged constitutional Govern neat, representing the Labour Party 00 tie other side was ranged a large organisation of Labour controlled b> a (e»- extremists. If he extremists were successful ir .rule -mining the constitutional Gov eminent and imposing their will upor people, it would be a tragedy. It must eventually mean death t<: UK rrale union movement. The leadeis of the Queensland railway strike were leading nothing lerss thai: > lercit. Their action was c alculated to destroy the Commonwealth’s pros oertv to destroy a standard of living whirl, liad been built up by long effort throw, 'h many years. •It is essential that these few ex tremi ts must be faced by a united public opinion. Something must he done to curb the extremists, the majority of whom are foreigners.”— A. and N.Z.