SIR JAMES ALLEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1921, Page 5

SIR JAMES ALLEN.

MR. HOLLAND HITS OUT.

By Telegraph-Press Association. Westport, May 11. Speaking at a Labor function here to-night, Mr. H. !■’. Holland. M.P., chairman of the Parliament o ry Labor Party, referring to Sir Janies Allen’e recent contribution to the Manchester Guardian, said that if the cabled reports i were correct Sir James Allen had misused his position as High Commissioner to propagate an inferential falsehood concerning the Labor Party. It was utterly untrue that there was lack of cohesion in the Labor Party’s ranks, and it was likewise untrue that a number of Labor members did not favor constitutional methods. There were only eight Labor members in the present Parliament, and every one of them was loyal to the policy of the organised labor movement, which stood for constitutional methods, as a glance at the Labor platform would show. He said Sir James Allen’s indiscretion would be brought before Parliament at the first opportunity. He described Mr. Wilford’s remarks in this connection as a somewhat ill-tempered and altogether ludicrous outburst, which would prove a source of merriment to the Labor move- i ment, but hardly deserving of notice, otherwise.