LABOUR IN POLITICS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8673, 13 July 1906, Page 3

LABOUR IN POLITICS.

A CONSERVATIVE VIEW. . [From Ons. Correspondent.] DUNEDIN, July 13. Judging from the proceedings at the Trades' Hall on Wednesday, the '"Otago Daily Times" thinks that the policy of the Independent Political Labour League is to ignore the New Zealand Workers' Political Association. As to the former body's doubt as to the propriety of trusting the Labour and Liberal combination, the "Times" says: — Frankly, the League does not trust some of those members of Parliament who pose as Liberals, and most significant of all, if Mr Breen may be accepted as its mouthpiece, does not trust Sir Joseph Ward, the coming Premier. It will be for the Workers' Political Association, which has made compulsory preference to Unionists a cardinal plank of its platform, hereafter to reconcile the maintenance of its principles with its support of a Government headed by a Premier who is unable to recognise that there is any sound reason why Unionists should be treated as a privileged class, but the view "he takes on that point alone seems to condemn Sir Joseph Ward in the eyes of some of the political leaders of the Labour Party.