A LABOR APPEAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 150, 10 September 1928, Page 1

A LABOR APPEAL.

“GREATEST INSURANCE.”

The members of various trade unions are being invited by circular to contribute “silver bullets,” which is to say, money, to the funds of the Labor Party (says the Christchurch “Press”). The circular is issued from the Trades Hall by the North Canterbury Labor Representation Committee, which describes itself as “having jurisdiction” over the electorates of the city and suburbs, including Kaiapoi and Hurunui, and it is signed by the officers of the particular union that has “endorsed” it and by the organiser of the Labor Party. After asking the workers to send along their “silver bullets,” the circular savs:—

“The greatest, safest, cheapest, most remunerative insurance policy any worker can invest in is to capture the government of this country. “The ‘Official Year Book’ tells us that were the wealth of New Zealand decentv distributed, each man, woman, and child would be worth £537. “This means that a working man with a wife and three children would be the owner of £2685, in cash or kind.

“Remember, your share in New Zealand is £537. Labor’s job is to make you a real shareholder in this wonderful wealthy country. This is the realm of practical politics. “Surely, then, you will, when you know these facts, contribute your mite, as a means to securing your real share in this country. This is the greatest, safest, best, nnd cheapest insurance policy any worker can invest in.

“Labor means security, assured employment, full development of industries, increased spending power, homes for all, work for all 11 “Will you help to win this war? Your silver bullets will mean the birth of a new freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, shall not perish from the earth.”