"A SLENDER REED"
♦ WORKERS' DEPENDENCE ON LIBERALISM. (By Telegraph—Presu Association.) Chrlstchurch, April 7. At a social gathering in connection with the Timber Workers' Conference, Mr. Hiram Hunter, president of the Social Democratic Party and secretary of the Timber Workers' Federation, said the workers of the Dominion had looked on Liberalism as their hope and salvation, but lie thought they had come to realise that tlioy had been resting on a broken reed. He believed that Liboral and Conservative Ministers would only do tilings for the workers under the the pressure-of public opinion. They bad to wean the people from Liberalism, and the workers in future would have to go on their own and not act as they did at the last election. Mr. E. Phelan (Auckland) asserted that Mr. Mafisoy had done moro- for them than any other Prime Minister New Zealand had had. One thing they could look forward to was a State sawmill.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 6
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155"A SLENDER REED" Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 6
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