The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JAN. 9, 1908. MR KIER HARDIE’S VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3782, 9 January 1908, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JAN. 9, 1908. MR KIER HARDIE’S VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

Mr Keir Hardie, England’s premier Labour leader and Socialist, has blown his blast in Wellington, and labour agitators and other associates of the “Brotherly-love and No Work Brigade,” are happy for the time being. Mr Hardie has, in the Old Land, a great field for his mission, which is to better the condition of our “ brothers who toil,” but the labourers in this laud need no - Kier Hardie to tell them how they are being bled to death by the bloated capitalist and sweater, for have they not that great leavener and CONCILIATOR (caps, please) Andrew Collins ! Ye gods ! the average New Zealand bred labourer is no fool; he is a fairly well educated man, and can discuss the cost of p-oduction and distribution of profits with the “boss” intelligently, without being educated by a set of noisy gas bags, who exist to stir up strife between employee and employer. His spare time is not spent in the tap-room ! He cultivates his garden, and devotes a fair amount of time to literature—a marked contrast to the men whom Keir Hardie knows. It is the imported “ goods ” that help to keep these conciliators (?) alive. The New Zealand-bred workman can keep his end of the stick up, and he is getting sick of the gang of drones in this land, who, ultimately, will hinder instead of bettering the workers’ position. On this point, then, it will require a large consignment of Keir Hardies to prevent the revulsion of feeling which is setting in throughout the Dominion against’ the present labour agitators and Socialists. The existing conditions under which the labour-

ing classes in Great Britain are compelled to toil, will never obtain in New Zealand.