Controls Policy of Labor

NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 6

Controls Policy of Labor

T^ROM pleasantly-ringing versification } experience and worldly understanding,

1 m, a . thin little volume, entitled, both manners and man have changed "Red Roses, on the H.ighwaiyj" .to lin identity, the flaunting of ; '.:'■■■ '. ' ' • He is more

flam m g ti es and ; equally combustible .. political' expression might, on the face of things, be complementary,, .while to others who know the:, man better- — know him for what he. is to-day, and for what he stood years ago — ■ t hey merely are the outward expression of that little phrase, "0, the times, 0, the manners!" 1 Yes,- they have changed, the manners and the man. Years ago H. E. Holland was a flame-thrower, his , political engines of war screaming the adapted argot of

the French revolutionists and Sinn Feinism, but since his spirit has passed through the purging fire of

human than humorous, this Leader of the Labor Party. -.■.... By no means a strong : man m the physical sense, his weakness is overshadowed by unquenchable . will power, the more remarkable because of the weary periods of sickness through which, he has passed. During the present session he has orally thrashed several members for their lengthy speeches, urging them to "get to the 'osses," while forgetting his own long-distance work m the paddock of political pumphandling.

Stii l, life's like that — an evergreen story of black pots and very dark grey kettles.