“MIXED.”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10736, 6 November 1928, Page 5

“MIXED.”

AIRS YOUNG'S RECEPTION IN • ' WELLINGTON. - PLUCKY BATTLE AGAINST HECKLERS. APPEALS FOR FAIR, HEARING PREVAIL* i> (Presd Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 5. Mrs AT. Young, Independent, Labor candidate for Wellington Central, whose last minute nomination was the surprise of Wellington, had a yery mixed reception when she spoke, to-night in a packed hall.' ,7 “It gives me pleasure to seek your suffrages,” she said, “and I hope you will appreciate my position. ’ I have nobody at my back in any sense of the word. I stand fob Labor, because I ani pledged to Labor. I joined it some time ago, but, as I have said, I don’t like the heads of.the movement and I never have.” A loud voice: “Why? \ Because your old man. is out as secretary of the Union;"—-(Laughter.) „ “I don’t- suppose any person in the world has more Henson to dislike them than 1,” Mrs Young proceeded; amidst interruptions:'" r “T. am standing for the sarnie views as are held by the Labor Party you'all so /much like.” . A voice: “Speak up. Afaggie.” Mrs Young paused in her address, tho time oi waiting being filled in with cat-calls from the body of, the hall. ‘‘.‘.if you women are not free enough,” she declared, when tlie disorder had subsided, “you want to stand up for yourselves in every sense of the word. When you working people want houses, you should not. be wasting money paying for Labor candidates. Let them pay for themselves, if they are pluckv enough to da it. Then you will know they are standing in your, interests.”— (Hear, hear, and uproar.) , Proceeding with her speech, Mrs Young had got as far as the .assertion that “the heads of the Labor Party are never going to improve Neva" Zealand,” when she was subjected to further heckling of a disorderly nature, )ond “boohs” and cries of “shut un” cheeking her utterance momentarily. Not to be deflected from her argument, Mrs Young continued: “Tlie heads of the Labor movement in New Zealand are only going to improve themselves in their own positions; they are worse than a secret societv and then vendett.-v travels far and widle, and you never know when you may get a stab in the back.”

A voire: “Waihi.” Mrs Young: “You will hoar all about W&ihi soon enough,”—(Further uproar.) Mrs Young: “You pooplo lmvo boon in bondage long enough. Tf \ got only ono vote, my own. in this el option, I think it will havto boon well worth tbo game. A heckler: “Hlint about the Hindus Mrs Young: “Tliev harp as much right to live ns you have.—(T-oml applause.) ■ 'L'he horklor: “How would vmi ]il--o a daughter ol yonrs married to oner"’ . At this stage a lady in tlm boclv of the hall rose and appealed tor a fair 'hearing for the candidate. Her injunction “hie men” was mot with further uproar and (ties fired at the candidate of “Come on; wake up.’ Mrs Young was about to resume when there was a loud shatterin'* of glass and after the man who hod fallen through the window had been assisted to his feet, the..... candidate made herself heard, A heckki -V.t bars .te U>2o and your old man’s a sqnb Mrs Young: “You have never flared sav that to his taee ,* and iou never will. He was too loval to the Labor Party to stand up for himself, but I am here to stand uv> for mv S elf (Hear, hear.) Now the AVnihi strike was engineered by Semple and Holland —the famous Holland. They wanted to get. in the public eye. There was no other way of doing it than by having a strike. They had to ask the engineers to come with the miners union. The engineers refused to do it, so : the. miners came out at the instigation of these “two great men.” It was not a strike for the betterment of the men, but to advance Holland arid Senium. Mr Young had more sense than any oi the others. —(Uproar.) A heckler: “You have turned him down.” Mrs Young (warmly): ‘I have not; I think he has been foolish to be loyal to a party that comes between jiian and wife.—(Applause.) J-hej don’t care whether they break up homes; they don’t care so Jong as they get places. A heckler: ‘ ‘Oil! ” - Mrs Young:. “You know as much about that as a cat:. Coming now to a laborers’ vendetta. If you don t do as the leaders tell you, you have got to be punished for all time. Mr Young would not come out with the Waihi strike, but lie had to he punished for all time. -If he wants anything now, they say “What about the 1913 striker'” Mr Holland ex posed lnm.” A heckler: “Hid heF” Mrs Young: *\He* did. HoflJanu,» Semple and Fraser were at the bottom of the 'Seamen's Union trouble. She claimed that Mr Young’s work for the seamen had undermined his health and the seamen had got the ■best conditions , of any seamen’s union in the world. A heckler : “Hut Mr Young got £l)3 a week.” , Another heckler: “You done wolf out of. his wages.” Mrs Young: “I'm not getting much now. I am here for the principles' of any Labor candidate. Although J. have not tlie official badge, I am still , for Labor.” ; .Mrs Young said she believed the old age pension should be increased. “I -also believe,” she said, ‘ in tree school requisites.-—(Applause.) 1 must ask l’or .your forbearance on account of the fact that I have come out off my own bat,— (Applause.) - “I'do not want anybody to lose their job and that is what would have happened if anybody m the movement came forward to support me,” said Mrs; Young. “That is the position with the' Labor 1 arty today: you are bound hand and foot, you would be branded as traitors it you came out into the of>enThe candidate went- on to say thatshe was in favor of the pension to widows being increased and that something should be done fpr the unemployed—(Applause.) Mrs Y oung asked how it was that a loyal member of the Labor party could not geemploymcno. • A voice: “There-are a lot of u. like that,”—(Uprbar.) . , '.Mrs-'Young: “You., are, .always taught to run down the capitalists, but the leaders of Labor are aiming to-be some of the capitalists oi'-hnis country by having three, or lour jobs She said’ she intended to see the contest through and she honed to be able to ’put up a’ good- tight in spite of her inexperience, f hope to make tV better fist of it next, election,” she added, amidst applause. “I. am out for the betterment and freedom or woirian. in very , sense. I .havo had letters from ell riw News Zealand' wishing me success in this campaign, saying that.it is a plucky thing to dp. I feel it is a plucky thing to do’. Until I came to this lmll, .1 never realised how plucky it' was. Mxs Young said she was- sure women knew that strikes-,w'erc dreadful things. They did not hurt tjio men as much as. they injured the women arid children. Jf women were in Pa

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