LABOR IN NEW ZEALAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1914, Page 6

LABOR IN NEW ZEALAND.

• o - ITS BRICHT PROSPECTS'. WILL SINK MASSEY GOVERNMENT. [By Eleotrio Teleorafh— Copyright) [United Press association."? (Received 12.20 p.m.) Sydney, February 27. Speaking at a meeting of the Labor Council, O'Bourn, of New Zealand, secretary of the Invercargill Timber Workers' Association, said the prospects of labor in New Zealand politics were never brighter than now. There was a real Tory Government in power in New Zealand at present, which made it hard for the unions to make headway, but the treatment meted out by the Massey Government would do more to organise and consolidate the Labor forces than it was possible for the Labor organisation to do in the some time. As the result of the Government's oppressive administration, «iid Mr O'Bourn, 1 am convinced we are going to sink Massey and his Government next election one thousand fathoms deep in the ocean of oblivion. Replying to an interjection about free labor, Mr O'Bourn said that inlustrial matters had quietened down in New Zealand of late, but if they created free laborers over there as New South Wales had on several occasions there would have been fewer ? ree laborers in the Dominion and much less industrial strife.