"HARDY AND VALIANT."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 February 1913, Page 4

"HARDY AND VALIANT."

The resolution passed at the recent Red Fed. conference in Wellington in favour of "downing tools" in the event c.f an outbreak of war, has been described as the "hardy and valiant" resolution. The description, though grotesquely inappropriate, is justified hv the name of tho original authors of tho proposal. It -was Ke.-ir Hardie wlio, at the International Socialist Conference last year, proposed that tho workers should refuse to con- ' Struct armaments and munitions of war, and it was M. Valiant, a French Socialist, who seconded it. Thus the origin of the term "hardy and valiant. In point of fact there is a, great deal more 'hardihood than variance in the suggestion.

LONDONDERRY SEAT.

'Hie election lor the Lond<vu!err,v City seat m the House of Commons, ren"dored vacant, by the elevation of the Marquis of Hamilton to the House jl. Lords, resulted in the return of Mr Hogg, the Nationalist candidate, by a majority of fifty-seven over his opponent. The contest was one of the most exciting on record. The Nationalists, it will be remembered, threw over a Roman Catholic candidate in favour of a Presbyterian. The fight, therefore, resolved itself into one for and against Home Rule. That the Nationalist candidate should 'have captured a seat: formerly held by the Unionist party wil come as a rude 'hock ,to those who construe the sentiment of Protestant Ireland as bitterly opposed to Home Rule.