Reardon Once More.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 79, 13 September 1912, Page 4

Reardon Once More.

A BOUT WITH THE EDITOR.

gir,—-J. don't like an apology, but. you do tf-y one's It you feel that titers is a, glimmering of hope ior your Mr-. Hickey whj not send the. correspondence to ft.he Sydney Trades Council ask that, in jiistice to your sub-editor, this incriminating letter of mine be, handed over to you? If tljo. Sydney Council refuses to produce, ths letted**, why you carry the iusinu-.ti.pn. oi-t till the cows come home. If, on tha other hand, the loiter is produped, that will bo. tha end of the argument $nra\y. gut I don't thinly your case is improved by trying to accepi responsibility, for "«thing but that which under the editorial ''we." However, apart from tho. reservation, 1 ani satisfied. Will ihs marker kindly count one. to %c? Wh«n I first to you I had no thought of a lengthy co«trev«i:B.Vv Having now disposed of the point upon whjch I felt correction was heeded, I feel inclined to let tha rest go. But as. you seem ■particularly anximis to see war in the Labor ranks, I had better not turn aside test I bo stabbed in th? baok- for my pains. You 55|j, "We, have not 'him or lied about him." My reply is that your whole attack is a lie by insinuation,. When you talk about my "conduct in relation to the strike and branding mc," you are uttering irialjci.ous ?*.nd false, insinuations that you have- never backed up with a tit-tie of evid«A c «- Wk en $°)i *# ut vonr "allegations your censures my defence," you are using statements, that convey, a false impression to. your readers. By the time the froth is- blown off' any alleged allegation of yours against mc thero is nothing left tih'at demands either attack or defence. Vhen you enlarge upon my "remarkable silence in the teeth of your aoc-wtions." you probably tickle the ears of- the unthinking;, but you don't. P*edw» yo.ur proofs.' \Vhat is more, you ctjn't. I could go. father were it. wortih while. ' I could re®"l4 X-W oi tho. fret that you bad allowed you? pap? to, be used as a sort of %, wherein malicious dumped a,\\ attack upon, ma which w§s rejected by the daily press. I could remind you of the fact that yo,u allowed m§J.icious. correspondents to, publish e*s*tract-j from private and confidential letters of mine. As I have said before, I must not complain. Working-class solidarity is the thing. And it heho/ve. mc to bow ray head meekly to. the bludgeon. Thank yea, Mr. Editor, I h-jvo done. —I am, etc., M. J. REARDON. September 3, 1912.