JUST HOW THEY HELPED.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15243, 3 December 1919, Page 2

JUST HOW THEY HELPED.

Here is the record of the Parliamentary Labour Party as presented by tne ••Otago Daily limes":—' "l he Parliamentary Labour Party, then four strong, fought the Military Service Bill at every stage. It attempted to organise opposition to tho Bill throughout the country, and had the audacity to inform opponents of conscription in Australia that organised Labour in Now Zealand was hostile to the Act. It offered no alternative to compulsory enrolment for maintaining the strength of the Division in the Held. The Labour Party made no appeal for voluntary recruits and accepted no responsibility for maintaining tne Reinforcements. Fighting men never appeared to claim its interest or sympathy. its eulogies were reserved tor those who would not fight, and its heroes and martyrs were objectors to military service. A member of tho party in Parliament set a standard of personal conduct by electing to go to prison rather than serve hia country."