LABOUR LAWS DEFENDED
LONDON, January 9.
In tlie course of a letter to the Standard Sir G. Ji. Eeid states that Mr Jellicoe's attack on labour ia wholly unjustified. 113 quotes Mr Fisher's statement in the House on October 26 on the Commonwealth's prosperity as a sufficient answer to Mr Jellicoe's allegation r - garding financial and industrial ruin. Sir G. H. Reid says that when he was politically opposed to labour he was compelled to acknowledge the Labour party's character, intelligence, and public spirit. He adds that some people are so accustomed to pes the capitalists combins to fight in their own interests that they are unable to recognise a similar development on the part of the workers.
Sir W. Hall-Jones, writing to the Standard, states that New Zealand's exports are greater per head than those of any other country. Arbitration has saved hundreds of thousands of pounds in settling disputes. Much of the labour legislation has substantially improved the workers' conditions, and no humane man can object to the factory laws in Kew Zealand, where the labour conditions are the best in the world.
Lady Stout, in a letter, combats Mr Jellicoa's statements, and taunts him as a rejected political aspirani-
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Otago Witness, Issue 3018, 17 January 1912, Page 27
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