HALL-JONES AND TREGEAR.

NZ Truth, Issue 56, 14 July 1906, Page 4

HALL-JONES AND TREGEAR.

— <*- t Premier Hall-Jones has earned the honest admiration of every honest man and true democrat m isew Zealand, fay the manly fashion m which he faced, and grappled with the damnable dragon of the Employeis 1 Association m its fierce attack on Secretary Tiregear, of the Labor Department. A more truculent, scandalous assault upon the honor - and position of an honorable and able official was never" made since the similar brutality perpetrated upon Mr Grattan Gray for similarly expressing' his private opinion upon the devilish Boer waropinions that are now shared m by even the maddest Boer-baiter m the land— and certainly nothing so scandalous as either ever, occurred before. This time, .however, /the' bouncinnbullying, bpodlers^'found: 'the Goyern r rqent m- a condition of\ absolute sanity and the Premier steadily refused to be bulldozed into bouncing Mr Tregear out of his job. Not only that, but he manfully welted' them upon their brazen cheek and metaphorically thre.w them neck and crop down the stairs. Mr Hall-Jones's letter m reply to the insolent demand of . the employers that Mr Tregear should be sacked, so that they could carry 'on their rotten ranips and villainous conspiracies against the worKers, freed from the accusing glare of the "glassy eye 1 ' that gentlenan .has ever turned upon their , truculent treachery and their petulant Meadum alike, was a masterly stroke, not only of justice, but. of policy; for the Premier made it clear by his "stand back and don't presume" attitude m this matter that he- is fully determined to adhere to the policy of the^Government as it existed under the strong hand of the late Mr Seddon. and that no Fed T crated Employers' Association heed hope to browbeat and bullyrag him or make him the creature of its pernicious plots and putrid plans to exploit, the brains, bone /and bodies of. the toilers. Though Mr Hall- Jones only did' his duty m adhering to the traditions of the Liberal Government of which he is the head, and thus strangling m its first spring the capitalistic catamount, he still deserves the hearty thanks of all properly constituted people for having done it m such a manner as to show the gang that he is no spineless makeshift, but a worthy lieutenant of his dead chief. Hats off, workers and democrats, to the Premier, the Hon. William HallJones ! '