WORE AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 36, 2 July 1914, Page 5

WORE AND WAGES.

BOYCOTT OF NON-US lOMSTS. By Cable—Prcsß Association—Copyright ; Sydney, July 1. A mass meeting of engineers decided not to work with non-unionists in future. This may lead to serious in--dustrial trouble. form of the Eeform Party prior to last flection, claiming that they had reformed the finance of the country. Mr MKUllain described the visits ma<jß by Ministers to his distoit during tie past few month®, declaring that twenty millions would not be siuil'ieient to redeem all the promises made by the Premier-, while Mr Al'len had insulted the intelligence of his constituents by the inaccuracies fe made in his speech at Blenheim. Ho characterised his (Air Allen's) reference to airpluscs quoted in the London prospectus as «ne of the most shaking cases of public immorality ever known in the Dominion. His half truths, so freely spread through his speech, had done fim no good in the "W eyes; of his audience, while his deliber- - ate statement that not one penny had 1 been spent on 6mall settlement in' Mar- ~ borough, the tome of small settlement, had shocked even his own friends. His prinrip] reason for not reposing confid- : encp in the Government was the bungling manner in wfliiicth they handled the strike of last year, and the inoorjlpetence of the Minister for Justice in dealing with the lawlessness which suroao out of the strike. The real object of the Government was to smash laibor organisations, With which they tod no sympathy, and did! not understand. They had repeatedly deelaay?d that one of the best reasons/for a change in t-h» Government was that the 'Ward Ministry pampered the workers. The opposition regretted the strike because it injured the workers more than capi'.tl, and that was just the difference between tihie two parties. The Government was worrying about the purse strings. i while the Opposition was anxious for the happine-js of the. people. There were many reasons for voting for the amendment. Amongst thorn he enumerated the fact that there nras no reference in the Speech from tlhe Throne to the adjustment of taxation or the imposition of higher graduated tax. There was also the abandonment of a, naval subsidy, rcpeil of the second ballot and the jerrymandering of if.tctorotes. He would support the amendment. Mr Hunter (Waipawa) said, the people. on the land had confidence in tlw, Ad-mini'Shi-ation, a.s tfli'e export figures showed. He quoted figures to show that the Government had carried cut its promises to push on land settlement. The land tax had induced the cutting up of estates <md foe looked f«T proposals to reduce fte co-it of living. Good results v.-iculd come from the appointment o? the Agricultural Foard. Mr Forbea l'«ld that the 'Government was not adopting a honorable couovc in using the services of men who disregarded their pledge*. No cases of aggregation had been dealt with. If the valua- , Hon list wais known he thought it wolaM i be found that large estates were evad i - . ir.g the graduated tax. Concluding Mr , Forbes urged that the -Mme had arrived when the large landholder must '. up to make room for closer settlement. This could only be. donj»by the applica- ; tion of (he graduated t-ix.

11V Veiteh disagreed with the state- \ input in the Governor's Speech that labor conditions were satisfactory for pru- ' dent worker* Prosperity was lumongst the landowner and not amount the ; masses. The speech contained no pro- ' posa! whatever for the benefit of tlhie worker?. Continuing. Mr Veitch said. ' there was a dim hope <'f a proposal to f «j deal with the cost of living. It \vw* a ,jl pity no indication of the 'Gownwhoni's ~%, intention iras given. A combination of '_■, Liberal and 'Labor parties was (hinted at, but was not such a. combination justi- V ; fled to insure the return of a Govern- i ! nient which wcnld ninke the cr.nstitu- '"% '■ ti'ni of a Labor party possible? He was A \ favorable to such a combination,'but lw ;.;, '. Itarl not turned his ewit. T.t was his; ..,«!: I duty to assist a eiwnibinntion whacJl ; would bring nliciit £C/!Hl government. '.' The debate v«s adjouirned on tlie mo- | tion of Mr Young, and the House rose : i at 11.55 p.m. J