MISLEADING THE WORKER.
To the Editor. Sir,—l usod tho word "unthinking" not ip refcrcnco to tho many able men who havo espoused the causo of tho worker, but in reference to mon like your correspondent Mr Byrnes, who when a njisstatoment has Keen made and pointed out, and the person who points out tho error _is told "to ehut hiß mouth up"—joins in tho applnuso. I ÜBod it also in reference to the men in Chr stchurch who would not allow tho Prime Minister to speak, and to the men at Mr Pirani'a meetings in Wellington who prevented him from being heard.
It is actions like this which brings the cause of Labour into disrepute, and it is tho reason why 75 per cent of the electors of New Zealand voted against the Labour men. If an argument is Bound it does not need to be forced into our brain by tho ris'os and falling of the speaker's fists, ana. if the argument is unsound to resent criticism does not improve the log'o. When Labour discourages free speech and rosents criticism it shows that there is ß somcthing wrong with the "cause."—l am, etc., W. J. TENNENT.
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Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1919, Page 5
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