H.E. Holland - New Zealand Labour Party Leader
In August 1914 H.E. Holland worked with the Maori and Union newspaper "The Maoriland Worker" who was friends with Samoan Socialist Mau Leader Taisi Olaf Nelson. He helped as an Editor and writer, publishing his works and molding the readers into an international Socialist position, taking on the NZ Colonials connected to Imperial Britain along with taking on allied Maori who favored Imperial Brits.
A year before in 1913 the Imperial allied parties were illegally arresting candidates to offices, and charged with sedition. Some of the political candidates arrested were with the Mau Samoan Socialists who had begun campaigns in Auckland. The arrests triggered a domino effect that led political groups to unify aimed at taking the New Zealand Government into a more civil practice of administration.
In December 1914 Holland and many other campaigners who had incoming overseas reports knew the Imperial was doomed on many political fronts (Russia, Germany, USA, China, Australia politics), and that Labour Party unity could easily stand over-head in New Zealand Capital. The NZ Trade Unions demanded better wages and healthcare with their eventual victories along with their main goal, the end of financial backing on foreign Euro-Imperial War efforts which was draining the economy of it's opportunities for prosperity. The NZ Socialist moto was "New Zealand for New Zealanders". In 1916 the New Zealand Labour Party became a formidable political player and well known in the public eye.
By the end of 1917 the Labour Party was considered a serious threat to the Imperial allied parties in office and H.E. Holland rounded the political bases in the South Pacific, first meeting with other Socialists in Australia and meeting with Mau in Western Samoa.
At Wellington North in February of 1918 the Imperial allied parties were on desperate grounds and openly attacked his person through media, shaming his character, propagating him as an evil Communist, and he was portrayed as the local variation of the "Bolshevik Revolutionary" incarnate (Russian Socialist Revolutionary). Holland even though targeted was still elected to office in 1918 and won his seat in history, a man marked with integrity. His election to office led to the New Zealand Government being taken over by the Socialists in 1935, headed by H.E. Holland's friend Michael Joseph Savage (Irish) who became the new Prime Minister of NZ, born in Australia.
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