OUTSPOKEN PRESIDENT.
WARMLY SUPPORTED BY. FELLOW, .UNIONISTS,
By, Telegraph—Press AssoeiationCopyrightj Received 11.25 p.m., April 7. SYDNEY, April 7
At a mass meeting of the Boot Clickers’ Association, there was a motion on the business sheet, censuring the president for attacking .the Labor Party in the Press, The mover failed to put in an appearance.
The president admitted having made the attack, hut said that he had done so because tlie party had
openly violated their principles. During the maritime strike they had been toid that once the trade unionists sent their own men to Parliament, the millenium of labor would be reached. What a miserable failure the result had been J The Tamworth election proved that tho people were finding them out. The Labor Parly were (loomed. They had been taugbb the British were a race of pioneers of political and religions freedom, hy which every man had 1 lie right to express his political opinion. It seemed the irony of fate that the very people for whom the principle was won, should the first to abuse it, and had endeavored to put down anyone having the courage of his opinions. A vote of confidence in the president wns carried by an overwhelming majority.,
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 861, 8 April 1903, Page 2
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204OUTSPOKEN PRESIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 861, 8 April 1903, Page 2
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