MR KEIR HARDIES TOUR
HOBART, January 17. The -officials of the Workers' Political . League welcomed Mr Keir Hardie. The mayor declined to "receive iiim -officially. ; Asked how he found the -workers faring in New Zealand, 'Mr -Bardic said : " Better even than in Australia-." He iell in love ■with New Zealand,^ and their labour legislation was proceeding on. right lines-. MELBOURNE, January 20. Addressing/ 1 a 'Socialistic- gathering last hignl;^3blr/SJeir-lHardie-«aid^fliat "there was no such thing as, dasloyaity or -sedition in. •India -to-day. The "alleged- seditions were' distortions -by interested -persons, who twisted local- grievances into questions' of national import. In. India, he added, the people .should be given an effective voice over the control of Indian affairs, for unless something were done soon there would arise a revolutionary movement ; and the time might come when the British Empire* fighting tor its very existence, , might regret the day it had refused justice to the people of India.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 27
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155MR KEIR HARDIES TOUR Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 27
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