"THE VOICE OF LABOUR."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10513, 30 December 1911, Page 4

"THE VOICE OF LABOUR."

The "Voice of Labour," the _ official organi of the Auckland branch of the New .Zealand La'btoun- Party, and strongly opposed to the revolutionary policy of the Federation of Labour,

has 'some pertinent remarks on t3ie recent- enactions. It declares thai whatever LabeojT may have hiad iii common with i£ie Balilanne or Seddon Administration, it had' -nothing in conmion' wiitihi the Ward GoveraancaJt. The latter, it point© out, oame before Jhe electors "with' no constructive policy whatsoever." v "Its only answer to the demaaids of Labdur was to rummage among tflie dtry bone's qf the past and nsh onxt BKwniettihing that Seddon or BaJiXuiioe or' Reeves or 6oraeone eke did ten, fifteen, or twemtjy years ago. Waving this round his head, tttic average lidta'al •thought that ihe hod only to loud enough, about Sir Harry Mkinsoe's ss»a d!ay and sbuj> kitt(hi?r.s, to eauswire the retnura of his party and ltoo defeat of the Reform Party." Th'? plun.i of corn's*, failed; the days an-e past when a. politwatt' party can safely appeal' for a renewal of the country's- confidence on- the sta-'eingjth of pfeafonnonoes by somebody eise, and abase- of its opponents. And, ap the "Voice" adds, "tihe Opjpositiion 'Party has durfti'g the last ten! years grown steadily mtOre democratic, and ifae Liberal Party steadily more reI aetionary." '•