MR. STOREY IN LONDON

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 7

MR. STOREY IN LONDON

AIMS OF AUSTRALIAN LABOUR REFORMS BY CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. London, March 17. Sir Geoffirey Lagden (vice-president) presided at the Coloniel Institute’s luncheon to Mr. Storey (Premier of New South Wales) at the Grocers’ Hall. The chairman welcomed Mr. Storey,- who he said was one of the most picturesque and most interesting figures in Australian politics. He had received many tributes) respecting Mr. Storey, who he described as one of the best elements in Labour. His conception of Labour was one upholding the British law and British institutions'. As long as Mr. Storey led Labour it would be clean and honest.

Mr. Storey, in replying, created, a favourable impression in ,a breezy, anecdotal speech. His party, he said, sought reform by constitutional means. It was useless to talk of overturning society in. a day. Evolution was the only proper way to obtain reform if it were to be lasting. This was the view held in Australia. The only way to obtain concessions and reforms was by educating the people up to the justice of them. He had been amazed with what he had already eeen at the seat of Empire. He represented a party which knew where it stood from the standpoint of Empire. He had striven to convince the Labour leaders in England that sane methods were the only ones with a chance of succeeding. Arbitration might not be successful in all cases, but it prevented some strikes, and was a better method than perpetual round-table conferences, which merely provided jobs for a few Labourites who otherwise: would be driven back to work. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.