THE HON. MR HOLMAN'S TOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5

THE HON. MR HOLMAN'S TOUR

VIEWS ON ARBITRATION.

CRITICISM IN AUSTRALIA.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

SYDNEY, February 19. The Morning Herald, referring to Mr Holman's speech, says: " The Premier must not be taken too seriously when away from the corrective influence of the hard facts of a tense situation. From the nature of his utterances one would imagine that the present industrial trouble was an accidental interruption of the quiet flow of the river of peace—a mere chip flung into a smooth current to indicate its speed and direction. It may be the invigorating result of his sea voyage, or possibly his distance from the scene of turmoil, that has moved Mr Holman to make those extraordinary sslf-contradictdry remarks. He will find it quite enough to do to secure loyalty to the principle of arbitration in the near future, for evidence-is rapidly accumulating that great numbers of Labour supporters have made up their minds that arbitration is no good to them."

The Daily Telegraph, after some caustic comments on Mr Holman's optimism in regard to arbitration, adds: "Asa matter of fact, nothing has more completely been demonstrated a failure than arbitration as a preventive or euro of strikes, and throughout Australia confidence in it is such that, instead of increasing, it 23 either dying or dead."