MR. JELLICOE ANSWERED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1912, Page 7

MR. JELLICOE ANSWERED.

STATEMENTS WHOLLY UNJUSTDJIED. A REJECTED POLITICAL j ASPIRANT. By Telegraph,— Vtin Aisoolatlon.—Copjrlfnt, LONDON, 9th January. Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner for Australia, writng to the Standard, states that Mr. JeSicoe's attack on Labour is wholly unjustified. He quotes Mr. Fisher's statement in the Federal House on 26th October on the Commonwealth's prosperity as a sufficient answer to Mr. Jellicoe's allegation of financial and industrial ruin. Sir George Reid says that when he was politically, opposed to Labour he was compelled to acknowledge the Labour Party's character, intelligence, and public spirit. Some people aro so accustomed to see capitalists combine to fight in their own interests that they are unable to recognise a similar development on the part of the workers. Sir William Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for Now Zealand, writing to the Standard, states that New Zealand's exports are greater tier head than any other country. Arbitration has saved hundreds of thousands of pounds by settling disputes. Much of the labour legislation has substantially improved tho workers' conditions, and no humane man could object to the factory laws of New Zealand. The labour conditions were the best m the world. Lady Stout, in a letter, combats Mr. Jellicoe's criticism, and taunts him with being rejected as a political aspirant.