WANTED: A LEADER,

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 10

WANTED: A LEADER,

Sir,-<-Now that tho Second Ballot Bill is about to bcoomo law, I would like, with your permission, to say it is high time tho wage-Garners of this country cleared decks for action, inasmuch as tho general election is so near, The Ward Government has done its best to kill the chance of a Labour candidate being returned to Parliament, Tho above Bill is a death-blow to Labour, and it is to be hoped that Labour will rise to the occasion during the election and hit back and shov tho Government what it thinks of it, Since the present Prime Minister took office, Labour has gone back, because of the fact that he is not in sympathy with it. I could enumerate hundreds of instances in support of the assertion, In the face of tho deputation to the Prime Minister by the unemployed,' assisted emigrants havo/heen pouring, juto ,the Dominion, simply to swell the ranks of unemployed at the 1 dorikey . rofcm".-.on ;tl]o • wh,arf and elsewhere. Nor- has tho 'Gbvorhment any time for the sorely rack-rented'tenants of this and other big centres. , The Canterbury farm labourers can mourn their long hours of toil and get no redress. The unions are bound down hand and foot, through tho recent Arbitration Act, What Labour wants now is a brilliant would follow the Prime Minister duping, his election tour and checkmate/ Biro'. /olijJJtid plausible ad-' dreasoe, and lay baro tho Croveriimeut's thorn Liberalism.. Sir, , fanev the . Prime Minister giving his usual/ sop' to the worker: "Roads, bridges; : and railways will be constructed and huilt" galore, in the North and South Islands. Millions of pound? will bo spent during the next three years. All will havo a happy home, hut just give the Government your votes." 1 do sincerely trust that the wage-earners to an individual will treat him with the indifference ho deservos. The workers of this oountry, alas I havo lost by tho demipo of that Grand Old Man, Richard John Seddon—l am, eto., i ; ■/£/' - I'ifW A WAGE-EARNER. /October ,5.