MODERATE LABOUR M.P.'S VIEW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17457, 29 April 1920, Page 6

MODERATE LABOUR M.P.'S VIEW.

WARNINGS NOT HBKDED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION] * WANGANUI. Wednesday. Interviewed to-day regarding the railway strike, Mr. W. A. Veitch, M.P.. while expressing the view that a serious mistake had been made in precipitating ,the strike, particularly while the Royal visitor was in the Dominion, said he had seen the disaster coming for several years. and session after session had ventilated the matter in Parliament. He regretted that his efforts had fallen on deal ear* his complaints being regarded as partv attacks, rather than an attempt to avert impending trouble. Such were the partv politics to which New Zealand owed many of her present difficulties. Containing Mr. Veitch said the chief reasons of the strike were the fact that after a number of years of patient en deavonr by constitutional means the men found the working conditions becoming more and more irksome. The depletion of the railway staff by enlistment, «nd afterwards by large numbers of re s L nations, had imposed long working hours on "* remaining men, who were feeling the effects of overwork, ,ceiul «