EDEN ELECTION.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1926, Page 2

EDEN ELECTION.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUCKLAND, April 9. Mr IT. E. - Holland, the Leader of tlie New Zealand Labour Party, spoke at Mount Albert to-night in ,support of the candidature of Mr Mason, the Labour nominee ill tlie Eden bye-elec-tion.

Mr Holland made a general attack upon the Government, and lie accused Air Coates of departing from his undertaking that there, would be no dismissals from the Railway Workshops ■Staffs under the reorganisation cheme. Mr Holland predicted that the Government would go in for wage reduction and for increases in taxation. The Labour Party would oppose, these to its utmost. They knew that they were coming, and those, he said, who 'had voted for the Government would get what they had voted for. .Mr Holland advised the women not to vote for .Miss Melville just because she was a woman. If .Miss Melville got into Parliament—and .Mr Holland predicted that she would not—the Reform Party would immediately open its ranks to her; she would sit on a Reform bench, and she would vote against the workers. Mr Holland remarked that he would not be surprised if the Government brought in a Bill which would lie a replica of the Commonwealth Crimes Bill, which made it almost a crime to belong to a union.

A vote of thanks and confidence was carried.