SANE LABOUR

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10853, 19 March 1921, Page 8

SANE LABOUR

MR STOREY EULOGISED

REFORM ONLY BY EYOLITJON

ARBITRATION UPHELD

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LONDON, March 17. •Sir Geoffrey Lagdon (vice-president presided at the Colonial Institute s luncheon to Mr Storey (Premier oi Nov South Wales), at tho Grocers’ Hall. The chairman welcomed Mr ist-orey, wiio, he said, was one of the most picturesque and most interesting figures ill Australian politics. He had received many tributes respecting Mr Storey, whom he described a* one of tho best elements in Labour. His conception of Labour was one upholding the British law and British institutions. As long an Mr Storey led Labour it would be clean and honest.

Mr Storey, in replying, created a favourable impression in a breezy, anecdotal speech. His party, he said, sought reform by constitutional means. It was useless to talk of overturning society in a day. Evolution was the only proper way to obtain reform if it were to be lasting This was the view held in Australia. Tho only way to obtain concessions and reforms was by educating the people up to the justice of them. He had been amazed with what he had already seen at tho scat of Empire. He represented a party which knew where it stood from the standpoint of Empire. He had striven to convince the Labour leaders in England that sane methods were the only ones with a chance of succeeding. Arbitration might not be successful in all cases, but it prevented some strikes, and was a better method than perpetual round-table conferences, which merely provided jobs for a few Labourites who otherwise would be driven back to work.