HOWLED DOWN

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11549, 28 January 1932, Page 5

HOWLED DOWN

BAD LIME FOIL AIR. FRASER

REl.l KF WORKERS RAMPANT

“LIONS LED BY ASSES

(Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. Mr. P. Fiaser, ALP., was asked to address a mass meeting of relief workers last evening. He was given an attentive hearing until lie remarked that lie did not want relief workers to develop into an army of lions led by asses. He was then howled clown nnd counted out, and not allowed to speak again. In a statement made subsequently, Mr. Fraser said ho anticipated that his view would be distasteful to the vociferous section which was shouting for a general strike. He was quite prepared to be howled down, lie wished to make it dear, that the metaphor was not applied to the relief workers of Tfutt and Petoue- Ho was speaking directly to a meeting of Wellington relief workers, and was anxious to prevent them getting into the position described. He intended to deal with the Mutt and Petone trouble only to the extent of expressing the opinion that the grievance arising from the dismissal of the two men concerned was a real one, and that the decision to carry out tho Eastbourne water supply job under No. 5 scheme was wrong, and essentially on those two points the men were right. He bad intended to point out that it was hopeless to attempt to help the workers involved by means ol a general. strike of relief workers. On quite other issues he had intended to point out that the only people who would Lie’ injured by this course of action would be the relief workers and their wives and families.

MORE PACIFIC MEASURES

MEN URGED TO WORK

(Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. Relief workers are being urged by a number of bodies and prominent Labor men to heed wiser counsels and refrain from participating in a strike. A special committee set up b- the relief workers themselves, as distinct from all other organisations, will visit gangs and endeavour to persuade the men to remain on their jobs. This committee has arranged for a secret ballot, .for which forms already have been printed. Those who are urging the men to return to work declare that the Eastbourne job should never have been declared a relief work.