LIBERALISM AND LABOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 September 1913, Page 4

LIBERALISM AND LABOUR.

The Melbourne Argus' says:—Liberalism is in sympathy with trade unionism, as trade unionism, and the workers, who will in the main form this institute are in sympathy with the political ijaith that makes for freedom and for the mutual well-being of every section of the community. The class hatred for which political Labour stands is by none more strongly reprobated than by unionists of independent mind. Their everyday experience teaches them that a chronic condition of warfare between employer and employee spells waste, and their common sense tells them that out oif waste nothing good for either aan come. Tens of thousands of the organised workers of Great Britain are supporters of the Liberal Party; and very many of them are ranged behind the Unionist Party. The Labour Party forfeited their sympathy when it showed itself to be permeated with Socialism and other destructive influences; and that party has never had in the Motherland the opportunity for mischief which circumstances have given it in Australia.