HALL-JONES AND TREGEAR.

NZ Truth, Issue 57, 21 July 1906, Page 6

HALL-JONES AND TREGEAR.

. — — _ 0— - Premier Hall-J ones has earned the honest admiration of ' every honest man and .true democrat m 'IMew Zealand, by the manly fashion m which he faced and grappled' with the damnable dragon^ of the Employers' Association m its fierce attack on Secretary Tiregear, of the Labor Depart-! ment. A more truculent, scandalous assault upon, the* honor and position of van honorable and able official was never made since the similar brutality J 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 : bouncing, bullying boodlers found the Government m a condition of absolute santity and the Premier steadily refused to be bulldozed j into bouncing Mr Tregear out of his job. Not only that, but he manfully welted them upon their brazen cheek and metaphorically threw 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 ramps and villainous conspiracies against the worKers, freed from the accusing glare of the "glassy eye" that gentlenan, has. ever turned upon their , truculent treachery and their petulant; nleadine: 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 Federated Employers' Association need hope, to browbeat and bullyrag him or make him the creature of its pernicious plots and putrid plans to ex- 1 ploit 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 ! .