A BRITISH LABOR LEADER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 131, 21 October 1912, Page 4

A BRITISH LABOR LEADER.

MR MeIIUCH VISITS NEW ZEALAND. Mr. Edward M6Hugh, British Laborleuder, orator, economist, and LloydGeorge Budget champion, who as advertised in another column, will address a public meeting in the Good Templar Hall on Wednesday next, ihas been engaged on a month's lecturing and organising tour throughout the Dominion under the auspices of the New Zealand Land Values'League and the United Labor Party. Mr. Mcllugh is returning Home via San Francisco after twelve months' campaign in Australia on behalf of •the Land Value Leagues of Victoria, New South Wales,, and South Australia, and has been persuaded to break his journey in New Zealand and go on by a later boat. Mr. McHugh has had a varied and interesting career as Labor leader and land reformer. He is an able and forceful speaker, exceptionally well versed inindustrial economics, and all interested in the great pressing problems —industrial. social, and political—of to-day, should take advantage -of the opportunities presented of hearing him. A good programmeof meetings has been arranged, and these will be announced in due course through. the usual channels. In 1880 Mr. Mcllugh, who was the first secretary for the first branch of the Irish National Land League established. outside Ireland, was requested by Mr. Parnell to organise branches of the league throughout Scotland. Later Mr. McHugh arranged a series of meetings in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, and other centres for Michael Davitt, who during this tour gave utterance to his pronounced views on the evils of land monopoly. Davitt had met George in San Francisco, I and urged his visiting the Old Country. Mr. McHugh, owing to ihis success in organising for Davitt, was asked to act as organiser for the George campaign. He organised the first meeting George held in Scotland in the City Hall, Glasgow, March 17tb, 1882. A special invitation was sent later to Henry George, who had returned to America, asking him to engage in a campaign throughout the United Kingdom. Outside London and Oxford Mr. McHugh organised George's famous campaign in 1883 and 1884, and from this on was on the closest friendly relations with George, being with him, in fact, only a few hours before his death in the course of his great contest in 1897 for the Mayoralty of New York. One of the fruits of the Scottish campaign was •the foundation of the Scottish Land Restoration League (February 1884), and Mr. McHugh was a member of the executive.