MEETING AT THE TEMPERANCE HALL.

Evening Star, Issue 3947, 19 October 1875, Page 3

MEETING AT THE TEMPERANCE HALL.

Last evening a meeting of the self-styled unemployed was held at the Temperance Hall. Between -100 and 500 wore present, by far the greater proportion of whom are in regular employment and earning good wages, Mr Grant, as will be seen, has not forgotten bis old system of threatening, which culminated some years ago in the ceienrated exhibition entitled by the ‘Otago Witness’ “A Craven Cromwell.” Perhaps none of those who may he termed now-chums know the history of the matter, or they would be less inclined to listen to him. The following were the resolutions adopted : Moved by Mr Morris, seconded by Mr N. Archer— “ That the result of the present policy of Hooding the New Zealand labm market with shoals of poor immigrants is subversive of the best interests of the Colony, and destruc’ive of the interests of thousands of starving operatives in this Colony, and calculated to demoralise the whole body of the population.” Moved by Mr Clifford, seconded by Mr W. Harper, “ That the Parliament of New Zealand has treated with silent contempt the complaints of the unemployed, and, in the interests ot capitalists and of land-owners particularly, lias voted half a-million sterling for the introduction of immigrants, and thereby intend to perpetuate its present wicked and abominable policy, and to reduce the rate of wages to the lowest possible scale.” Moved by Mr Morris, seconded by Mr J. G. S. Grant— “ That therefore, in self-defence, the operatives of New Zealand are constrained to hive recourse to stringent measures, as pacific meavires have failed, with the view of opening the eyes of their deluded rulers, us well as of acquainting the people of Great Britain with the real state of this country, and the miserable fate which such of them a» intend to emigrate will have to encounter in this much belauded but corrupt and misgoverned corner of the Queen’s dominions.”