EDEN BY-ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 166, 10 April 1926, Page 6

EDEN BY-ELECTION

MR. HOLLAND’S. OUTBURST BX TELEGRAI'It.-PnESS ASSQ.CO.TION Auckland, April 9. Mr. 11. Ti. Holland, Leader of the Labour Party, spoke at Mount /Albert to-night in support of the candidature of Mr' 11. G. R. Mason at the Eden by-election. Mr. Holland made a general attack upon the Government, and accused Mr. Coates of departing from his undertaking that there would be no dismissals from the Railway Workshops’ staffs under the reorganisation scheme. He predicted that the Government would go in for wage reductions and increases in taxation, The Labour Party would oppose these., to its utmost. They knew they were coming, and those who had voted for the Government would get what they had voted for. He advised the women not to vote for Miss Melville just because she was a woman. If she got into Parliament—and Mr. Holland predicted she would not—the Reform Party would innnediatelv open its ranks to her She would sit on the Reform bench and vote against the workers. He would not be surprised *f the Government brought in a Dill which would be a renlica of the Commonwealth Crimes Bill, which made it almost a crime to belong to a union A vote of thanks and confidence was canied.