MR E. G. JELLICOE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 307, 10 January 1912, Page 5

MR E. G. JELLICOE.

■SOME SPIRITED REPLIES. Press Assn —By .telegraph.—Copyright LONDON, January 9. Sir George Reid, Commonwealth High Commissioner, writing to the Standard, says that 'Mr E. G. Jellicoe's attack on labor is wholly unjustified. He quotes Mr Fishers statement in the Federal House of Representatives on October 26, prosperity of the Commonwealth. "It is sufficient answer to Mr Jellicoe's allegations that the Labor party brings financial and industrial ruin," says Sir George, "when those politically opposed to labor are compelled to acknowledge that the Labor party's character ,is one of intelligence and . public spirit.'' Sir George adds that some people are so accustomed to see capitalists combined to fight in their own interests that they are unable to recognise a similar development on the part of the workers. Sir Win. Hall-Jones, New Zealand High Commissioner, also writing to the Standard, says New Zealand exports are greater per head than any other country. The Arbitration Court has saved hundreds of thousands of pounds in settling disputes. Much of the labor legislation has substantially improved the workers' conditions, and no humane man can object to the factory laws. New Zealand labor conditions, he contends, are the best in the world. Lady Stout in a letter combats Mr Jellicoe, and taunts him with having been rejected as a political aspirant.