A SERIES OF LEAFLETS FOR THE WORKERS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11729, 2 December 1905, Page 2

A SERIES OF LEAFLETS FOR THE WORKERS.

The Liberals and Labour. INTRODUCTORY. Just how much th-e workers of Now Zealand — men, women, and children — owe to the present Government will most" probably never be accurately known until a Conservative Government con*?s into power and repeals some of the enactments which are of such value to the working section of tho community. That section, as

EXPERIENCE HAS ABUNDANTLY

SHOWN, is the on© that most needs protection at the hands of the Legislature, and it is no small part of the offence that the Government, of which Mr Seddon is the head, has given in certain quarters, that that section has been, and is being, protected. Is it likely, that the workers of New Zealand will ever turn against an administration which has befriended them iv so signal a manner as the present Government has done? Such a thing is. at present at least, in the highest decree improbable ; but the past io not without instances of such

POLITICAL INGRATITUDE. The struggle of the "Outs" for an innings, and the bitter diatribes of their orators against the party in power ; the desire to "give the other fellows a show." and the mistaken feeling that the points secured by past legislation will not be lost, all these may eventually be found to operate, not perhaps against the present occupants of the Treasury benches, but, which amounts to the same thing, in favour of their opponents. There is, it may safely be believed,

VERY LITTLE LIKELIHOOD of anything of this kind taking place at the forthcoming general eelction, but it will not be out of place to warn those who hitherto have given their support to the present Libeial Government against being led away either by the factious critcism of the Opposition proper, or by the personally vindictive aituclcs of the

SMALL BUT LOUD-VOICED PARTY which follows the leadership of Messrs Taylor and Fisher. Failing ef success in their attacks on the Premier's family circle, aud have diagged into the sordid arena of party discussion

THE NAMES OF THE DEAD as well as of the living. Such action is un-English in tho extreme, and is likely in the rear future to recoil upon the heads of thoce who have shown themselves capable of it. It is the purpose of the present series of short articles to present before the eyes of all interested in Labour legislation, that is to sny. of all interested in the

WELL-BEING OF THE WORKERS. fome of the chief legislative enactments for which Labour has to thank the present Liberal Government, and which has made this colony not only the paradise of the working man, but has made it

THE MODEL upon which all the other British colonies are at present framing their Labour legislation.