A WORD FOR THE WORKERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15511, 11 January 1911, Page 8

A WORD FOR THE WORKERS.

Those workers who profess to be dissatisfied with the labour legislation of this country would do well to ponder over the remarks which the Now South Wales Minister of Labour made in the course of an interview with a newspaper reporter on his return to Sydney. Mr Booby came to Now Zealand with the express purpose of studying the condition of our workers at close quarters, and he has gone back to his own State with a firm conviction that they are vory fortunately situated. He thinks that the New South Wales Government —a Labour Government, selected just as the restless spirits in this country are demanding our own Government should be selected—will have accomplished a very great work if within the next three years it does as much for the workers as the New Zealand Liberal-Labour Government has already done. He was particularly struck during his visit by the broad sympathetic administration of the labour laws here, and came to the conclusion that New South Wales, with all our experience to guide its politicians, could not improve much upon what has been accomplished in New Zealand. This is high praise indeed coming from such a source—a Labour Minister of Labour in his first year of office—and we trust that our own -workers will boar it in mind when they are urged to renounce their alliance with the Liberals at the next general election.