THE LABOR JOURNAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2112, 11 February 1908, Page 1

THE LABOR JOURNAL.

The Runnels’ Union Advocate baa the following tin. -its editor in I columns: We Jinvo holore us a copy of the “improved edition” of the La, hot - -Joiin'nul, issued “ii-nder the direction of tlio Hon. J. A. Millar, Mini Her of Labor.” The “.iniprovoiuout,” -we particularly notice in this issue is an article entitled “The Agitator: IT is fnnosion in .social evolution.” A more brutal .incitement to anarchy could sea rooty bo conceived—a more vicious attack upon the British i-.qvemignlfy impossible. Imagine a. Miniii-ter of the Crown —sworn In allegiance directing the Dulilieution of these lines: “The liL-iminn ol' the hihivro will have more to s'iy ol .. . Keir Hardie and John Burns, of B:\ttersea, than of Edward the Seventh, on whose doini-nions the sun never sets!” It is <vnlv (i 1 t*\v months siiioo that our B.l'im'i: Minister was the guest „r ll'i-s Nln icsty the Kmg. I t is fresh in the memory of all Im-w wo have from time to time 'pledged ourselves as .mt'riots, and as lovul to It! 10 Ami yet a Minis,or of the medium of a Slate pnblmn'tnW, ..as the to sanction an insult to our .Sovereign-/a Sovereign who has done so much m recent veal's -to preserve the peace ol the world—bv .placing him, from a Ins-tonian'-s point of view, in a, category below cuoli a firebrand as Iveir Eardie! Will an vmi l not, any Britisher, iu this .Dominion, allow sueb an insult to pass unnoticed? AViU thePrime Minister —-wMil the special honours lie has received I rum the &ovoreion —-permit-, hy Iws silence, Ims scandalous reflectiop upon the Throne ? The whole nminuin.ty lias a right to expect that an immediate and abject, apologv will be made, and that the person; re- 1 : or n'-t shocking importiner/; •d. m m to pay -the penalty t-.l i-a nKhsciOv'Q.i