"A DEFINITE LABOUR PARTY."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 573, 30 July 1909, Page 4

"A DEFINITE LABOUR PARTY."

; ;:;IIO6TED^N':^.UCKLANp; ; V '; ' , v :;.:..(By;,'l'el(;jraplh-Sp'ocla').^^Correspondent.! - ;'': ■/,'; :/' : / v//'v: ■'/ Auckland, July 29. "The idea .of,a party in .l'arliaipe.nt;j.s,'attracting -.a'.'• number of ad-hei'chts,-'aiid.-aii' attdiiijjt'.is to be made to organise labour /throughout,' this province. At the --Meeting .last!;evening, Mr. A.; Rosscr, tho! well-known ■'. labour organiser, week 'will'sea 'tho''initial stages of. tho' birth ;of a* strong-Labour party..'.' We intend.'to! proceed ?with' this.'/'and ..make it go.'' - Ho' referred to what; tho! Labour, party had- dono.'in Australia,':and /askpd: /'Cannot ;Wo.'in Now .ZcalaiKlr-do;: something' for our ■salyatiorlrVW'tau'st'-organise." . He, pre- ; dieted. 1 a './stormy;; tiriie'/Vih' !the New ; Zealand Parliament/ when , Sir-!. Joseph ■■■ Ward !; came backhand', added :'/"You/must .have .your niachinery'.teady.!' You "have'the in your. 1 ownYliahds.f; The:ball-is :at':your'' feet; kick; it, !and! you, will'get ..-it' over .the goal posts*quicker,!than.!you expect';".; V ■Mr, , ':;C.:- : H;.,' l Eoble,';-'M>P.v. also/, referred'.to .tliß/'prop'osed formation .of a -Labour party/ "I/want,'?! he said,/ "to -give -some adviceto! those. who .are "organising ;!'the • Labour' party.- It is: unfair, to! ask men who have ijeen fighting hard along'principles connected withiroforni. to e6mmit.:!tnemselyes.body and saul'to Labour, caucus :meetihgs. It/is., unfair: to : ask .'member's to"-place their resigiia.tiqnsjjn, the; hands' of/Labour Councils, so /that "they, may, be operated on at. any time that-membefs 'rat,';•.":'l '"am": : not. .'prepared t.j place myself'in: too close to a political ■; rat-trap; I am riot a. political fat.": .{: Mr...George'-Davis/president of the Auck-land'-'.branch of .'.'tho.. Political Labour League, >said : :that that;'body bad decided to disband, in order to make /the way, clear for the' new party.' There".were some, good Liberals in the .House, but from the Labour point of view, tho Government and! Opposition, wero one/ There was every, probability of between 12 and 17 followers of,tho. Government in the! present House ; ,going' over to the Labour party..-- Mr. ; Arthur Rosser, -the,-secretary pro.'.toin.- of the i Provisional Committee set up to. initiate the movement, stated: that; in his opinion, .the people ofthe country wero getting heartily, sick of Sir Joseph Ward and his promises?,:./, ,■ ./ '! ; ~:' Mf.'.lL. E;;Heridry,. vice-presidont bf tho Trades ; Co(incil,.^id v the Labour party would be governed by -tho ealious in order to prevent any member."ratting" on it. If there, wore a want of confidence motion against the "Ward' Ministry: in the coming parliaimeutj/the Labour .'party would vote, against ithe Government; in/order tb-fofce a dissolution with a view, of appealing! to the country;'