WELLINGTON NORTH.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1296, 27 November 1911, Page 6

WELLINGTON NORTH.

MR. E. J. CAREY AT PIPITEA STREET. ■•" . . Mr.- E. .T. Carey, the Labour candidate for Wellington North, addressed the electors in the open air at Pipitea Street on Saturday night. He said that the old-time Liberal and Labour alliance was now completely severed. The Liberal party was now backed by the very people whom it set out to fight twenty years ago. There.was nothing in common between such men as Hamilton Gilmer, Dr. Collins, Mr. D. Nathan and other of the Liberals, and tho workers of this country. The candidature of the Labour men was a protest against the backsliding of the great Liberal party. Whatever the result of the polls, and even if only two or three Labour men were elected, the campaign of the Labour party would result in forcing on tho reforms so long demanded by labour on behalf of the great bulk of the people. The Government, whether a Massey or Ward Administration, would have to move in the new Parliament for the enactment of electoral reform, Legislative Council reform, and industrial reform. He felt sure that such demands as equal pay for equal work, full political rights for all Civil Servants, a more rigid observance in industry of the eight-hour principle, and of the weekly day of rest, would be dealt with by the new House, because of Labour's uncritieised' advocacy of these from all the . platforms of the Dominion. In answer to a question, Mr. Carey said he was not in favour of State aid to denominational schools. Ho wanted to see-tho educational system of New Zealand remain always free, compulsory, and secular, and with greater facilities given for technical and industrial training of youths. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried with acclamation.