A CABLE TO SYDNEY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8611, 23 December 1913, Page 6

A CABLE TO SYDNEY

MR CAREY EXPLAINS. In connection with the statement made at Newtown Park on Sunday to tho effect that he had cabled to Australia advising unions not to assist the New Zealand strikers, Mr E. J. Carey informed a reporter yesterday that it was in keeping with the policy of certain federation officials, who attempted to hide their own failures at the expense of others. “All that 1 did,” ho added, “was to send a private cable to Mr Hughes covering the strike situation. That cable was not read to tho conference or officially dealt with by the conference. I have tho official report of conference proceedings. Tho message is now tho property of Air Hughes. When he gives permission to do so, I shall make tho cable public. Aleantimo I cannot refrain from saying that these lily whites of tho federation, who profess their sacrifices to tho right of free speech, and the liberty of expression of individual opinion, are tho first to indulge in the most vicious intimidation and misrepresentation of anyone daring to differ from their policy and teachings. They even presume to deny my right to correspond with personal friends,”