WARDISTS AND RED FEDS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15121, 10 November 1914, Page 9

WARDISTS AND RED FEDS.

SPEECH BY THE HOX. MR

FISHER.

I jjj t he couiso of a speech in tho n o ase of representatives on tho last- , of the session, the Hon. F. M. B. fisher referred to a speech of Air Wilfwd merntsr for Hutt. «<I .jneatiou the speech," Mr Fisher xi "becauio it really clinches the \ory of tbu compact 1 have heard of b \lthtihon. "entlemen who repiesent, ■!?SfcpSen s . the Labour Party: SafSU* aa alliance between tuo icLdtiou and tho I'ederation or S end Social Democrats to Ijjtbe Government. 1 have seen tho Ser for Hutt and tno member for SI sitting on tho same bench Sing nos«s.fcr the last half-hour, Sd hatching P'pte. It only mves point ??♦£ statement made by tho Labour **JsL£ in tho Houso during the deu? t ivSt there is an alliance between L&ur anSralism as confirmed by i*U? This » Mr wSf*" l ■'-'Tho Prime Minister (Mr Mas--33' by the' repealing of tho second 23' W""*' would be fighting each «ter thronghoot the electorates, but Sr& when ho found that Tibersl and- Labour had joined hands j frS&itoS & lho ? c , aI , md [ntorest -ef the wasscs as a whole. The hon. ' wntleaiaiJ'has afc last taken Jus foot off tie soft, eoft nodal, and has actually made a two declaration. Then he ■sen! to say: 'Liberal and Labour ideab'W 0 en0 ' ant * *^ c su PP° rt at ■mis>3ißg given tho.causo throughout flje#Dgtn and breadth o? the Dominica ■■ *4s bbtli astonishing and encouraging. Labour saw the point that Mr MiiSseV aimed at, and was prepared to • meet H- These combined organisations «*ept the conntry jn the days of tho lite Mr Seddon, and would do it agiin ou the present occasion. K» iorm bad got' into power by a toasted thciae policy that secured a few Libr •j»rsU wtd ratted from the party, but is fiid Bad the effect of cementing Liberafawi Labour by stronger bonds. , ' "So." continued Mr Fisher, "we can say.Vitli absolute certainty, because, wo .'.* hiro jt-from tho lips of Labour and V"the oracle'of the Opposition, that an alll4B<* between these parties hae been ..'. broaghi about and has determined to tlefeat tne present Administration. . ." Ai far-as'the coalition was concerned, fhiiyliad strong evidences of it, apart from the utterances of tha hon. inem- \ tetfor Hutt, and certain members of ; JJj# Labour Party. The */pposition was jroirii? ,to be unopposed by Labour in Xapier. Hawke's Bay, AVeiliugtpn Centra!, Boiler, Westlaud, Christchurch, and Iticcorton. Labour was go'iug to be by the in WolJiugtfitt South. Wellington North, Wellington.East, Grey, Wangnnui. Lyttcl,ton, Grey Lynn; and Otafci. "Think oF the sacrificQs tbjit. bavo beet; made" continued Mr: Fisher. "Fancy sa«ri-. fiejnc tho Labour Tote in Hawke's Bay ja.the mtcrcste of a larzo iaudownor, a «.ar.|taljst; and jttsfc fanity in all theso I have naraiid, "sacrificing, fbe cejiume eupporters of Wardism and .<J«"riTinK them pf,any cbah"o of bein"aWojo vote atraJnst the Government. \\* have wited for some-time for ac;taalnroof.of the coalition that has been Aeaied *a-often* Imfc oblisaticmto' thoXßoonr members and'tbo anew Her for/Hutt; for beine- >iyen,+>6 I»toof that tho.combination between bas been effected, and that - ntW Wanlisn, SB i, ot^naied •i!v ft 0 >*».flfP«-t6-«t into office that •\, Tcfj -, , - nt ?'^ n •'ailffTCe w?th the -' J* 18 Terr'satisf&ctoiy to