TOPICAL READING.
A NEW LABOR PARTY. The political interests of the workers are so obviously those of the community generally that exclusiveness must be fatal to any political organisation. If the workers progress it must be in common with the rest of the community and with its help. This is an old, old siory, of course, and the older generation knows it by heart. The men who are promoting the separatist movement are comparative newcomers in politics, who simply do not understand the conditions of life in New Zealand, says the "Lyttelton Times." In Australia the selfish isolation of Labor has compelled the other parties in the Commonwealth to amalgamate, and if the fusion party preserves even a moderately progressive policy the Labor Darty will find itself hopelessly excluded from power. But we suppose that only experience will teach men wisdom, and the workers' leaders in New Zealand will have to learn in that bitterest of all school,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9550, 24 July 1909, Page 4
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158TOPICAL READING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9550, 24 July 1909, Page 4
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