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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 147, 28 July 1914, Page 6

An interesting article which we publish to-day will serve to disillusion the credulous few who were inclined to applaud Mr .7. Payne, M.P., for his futile Right to Work Bill introduced a few days ago in the House. A striking contrast to this political wax figure is afforded by the scheme which the British Labour Party brought down to deal with the eternal problem. The sincerity of purpose and thought underlying the Fng--1 lish measure will be apparent to intelligent readers who are interested in the welfare of true Labour. Our contributor, in the article under notice, has some pertinent comment to make respecting the dubious Labour representatives (socalled) at present in the Parliament of the Dominion. The member responsible for the brilliant fatuity mentioned above has no pretensions to be a leader of Labour, plain or coloured. Mr Veitch, of Wanganui, the gentle remonstrant of the Government, once threatened to take an interest in the advancement of the great cause of trades unionism, but the complexities introduced by the Federation of Labour exercised a discreet restraint on his ambitions in that direction. Mr Robertson, Otaki, is plainly branded with the flaming mark of the U.L.F., Mr McConibs is a pallid disciple in the same cause, while Mr Webb—who must be.given credit for the courage of his political and industrial opinions, though those opinions are of themselves fundamentally absurd—is but a taper as compared with the torch of, say, Messrs Seniple or Hiekey. There remains but the member for Wellington South, the impetuous Mr Hindmarsh, and if it be admitted that Mr Hindmarsh has done something for true Labour, the achievement has not been sufficiently impressive to warrant his being regarded as the industrial Moses of this nourishing Dominion. Thus the Labour Party lias practically no representation in the House, though that champion of humanitarian ism, Mr Albert Glover, dreams o' nights of the viscissitudes of the masses. As for the representatives of "direct action," they are not a bold advertisement for their cause.