MR WADE’S VISIT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9652, 4 January 1910, Page 2

MR WADE’S VISIT.

Press Association. Auckland, January 3. \ Mr Wade, Premier of New Sooth Wales, arrived at Auckland yesterday Interviewed he explained the provisions of the new strike law just jrnt through the State A PHpmb 7* section of the workers, he tuys>. Insistently refused to observe toe conditions of of the Disputes Act and endeavoured to assert the sn^ re ™y of the unions over btata law. £he industrial upheavals in the last two years were engineered by a few men With fluent tongues, find Newcastle strike occurred mont decided that some more stringent method should be adop e< to prevent a [few agitators laying the whole coino try by the ears just to satisfy personal vanity. They, *’fv decided to make the punishment for instigating a strike more severe. Any person so instigating may now be summarily sentenced to U months' imprisonment! WKi.ou. option. The provision:; • ‘ ' main body of lerc untouched as it is felt tha . cases they are more sinned than sinning, and by the declamations of agitators. It 1S impossible to hold strike meetings and a union deciding to strike must do so by secret ballot. Therefore members no longer need f6 ? r J 3e . ID f called scabs if their noting is against a strike. The damage to New oonth Wales, Mr Wade says, is incalculable, and it will be years before Newcastle will regain its oversea trace. Even when the strike ends it is doubtful if the mines can afford to employ the full number of miners. - Mr Wade’s visit to the Dominion isTprincipaily a health -seeking but he will inquire into the more important legislation, incl " d *f g licensing, racing, and cl ° ser ® efct f l ® meat laws. He wants to see for himself the result of prohibition in the prohibited areas, also to 1 1 P q °^. e into the working cf the to u alisatoi, and whether the progressive laud lax is assisting to burst up large estates.