New Zealand Socialist and Union Worker strikes 1920s-1930s marching
against the NZ Reform Loyalist Party
The World War in the Pacific started when the Brit-New Zealanders broke the 1899 Tripartite Convention Treaty and attacked a German Radio station in Western Samoa in 1914, again the work of a Loyalist political party in New Zealand. The 1920s brought about the fall of English Banking who went belly up with their allies going full steam into a Great Depression at the ending of the first World War. A regrouping of resources was attempted at uniting foreign allies in The League of Nations (formed in europe) hoping to secure funds for future Naval dominant force but failed.
"The English lending Banks went belly-up from War efforts by 1929, and the following year in 1930 is when New Zealand Markets shut-down. All local NZ trade began depending on District or In-state trade and Maori business. Socialist and Democratic Socialist, and Anti-war Campaigns started to oust The NZ Reform Party (collaborated with The NZ Legion). The Labour Party members (New Zealanders and Maori) also had connections with the Australian Socialists and Mau Socialists of Samoa who campaigned Samoa-Mo-Samoa (Samoans for Samoans), and the new Labour Party too wished New Zealand-for-New Zealanders"
It was in 1932 when "The Auckland Queen Street Riots" emerged in force, a public showing that administrative change had come to The Reform Party Administration. The Maori Unionist, Australian Socialists, New Zealand Labour Unions, and Mau Socialist took to politics while New Zealander Kiwis became a force of Protesters. An estimated 20,000 organizers in movements and an unknown amount of followers across the northern parts of the nation were estimated.
Historian "NZ History recalls an organizer named Jim Edwards who spoke to the protesting mob, trying to calm the people, on the verge of being an angry riot. The Auckland police then struck down Mr. Edwards, at which time the protest turned full riot. The rioters then swept through Queen street, smashing all businesses and anything relating to British Imperialism"
The Waikato Territorial troops were then called in with no regard to public where new riots had reorganized on Karangahape Road. During this time of economic chaos, it was the Maori and Pacific Islander cultures that moved without a hitch, still networked in either an Iwi, or a Faa' Samoan community, able to with stand the economic times with easier means.
In 1935, the Labour Party of New Zealand took over New Zealand Government winning the election. The newly elected Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, (friend to Fraser) of the Labour Party, terminated sedition charges against Mau Samoan leader Taisi Olaf Nelson's, saying that, "We believe that the return of Mr. Taisi Olaf Nelson will be taken as evidence of our intention to secure the cooperation of all sections of the Samoan people” The Labour party immediately worked with the Unions, created State housing, and forbid evictions from tenant debt, then focused on larger public works programs. Since 1935, almost all Pacific Islanders in New Zealand vote Labour.
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