DEATH RATTLE OF A DISCREDITED CAUSE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3510, 29 April 1912, Page 6

DEATH RATTLE OF A DISCREDITED CAUSE.

LABOR LEADER AND SOCIALISM. SCENE AT AUCKLAND MEETING PROFESSOR MILLS HECKLED[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, April 27. Hiere was a remarkablo scene towards tho end of a meeting held in the Town Hall to organise in Auckland a united .Labor party. Professor Mills, who was loudly cheered on rising, was subsequently subjected to a good deal of interruption, and eventually requested the removal of a man who persisted in making interjections. A policeman’s services were requisitioned, and the man left the ball. In response to a call for all Socialists to leave the meeting, forty or fifty walked out. Professor Mills, proceeding, said that too long in Auckland and other centres of New Zealand had a small crowd of men, who had the capacity to create disorder and not to create anything else, been permitted to hold the stage. The present disturbance was the death rattle ef a discredited cause. There were in the Dominion' ten thousand working men who stood for labor, who had no sympathy with the disturbing element. He asked for their help. They had listened to misrepresentation of labor long enough.