EDEN BY-ELECTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 12

EDEN BY-ELECTION.

LABOUR’S CAMPAIGN,

(Pbh United Peess Association.?

AUCKLAND, April 9.

Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Laboui Party, spoke at Mount Albert to-night it support of the candidature of Mr Mason at the Eden by-election. Mr Holland made a general attack upon the Government, and accused Air Coates of departing from his undertaking that there would be no di \issals from the railway workshops staffs under the reorganisation scheme. He predicted that the Government would go in for wage reductions and increase in taxation. The Labour Party would oppose these to its utmost. It knew they were coming, and those who had voted for the Government would yet what they had voted for. He advised the women not to vote for Miss Melville just because she was a woman. If she got into - arliament —and Mr Holland predicted she would not—the Reform Party would immediately open its ranks to her. She would sit on the Reform bench and vote against the workers. He would not be surprised if the Government brought in a Bill which would be a replica of the Commonwealth Crimes Bill, which made it almost a crime to belong to a union. , _ . A vote of thanks and confidence was carried.