A Labour Leader's Views

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12726, 23 March 1909, Page 7

A Labour Leader's Views

CHRISTCHURCH, March 23. Mr Hart, President of the Trades' and Labour Council, interviewed, made a vi'>i?nt attack on the Government, and said tho Premier's offer was little short of a delirious farce. In view of the retrenchment proposals, the Cabinet's offer came like a bolt from the blue. A callow colony was offering to provide its portly mother with a protector which it could not afford to pay for. Sir Joseph Ward, while intoxicated with jingoism, voted two millions to go out of the country, while reproductive works were languishing 1 from want of support. The Government' 6 gigantic piece of folly was opposed to every principle of representative Government, and -the masses would resent this impetuous piece of self-jylorification on the part of the Premier. In ite wild delirium, -the Cabinet had displayed a suicidal tendency, which would alienate the sympathy of the working classes throughout the Dominion.