THE OBJECT OF THE STRIKE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 11

THE OBJECT OF THE STRIKE.

TO THE EDITOR OF "TUB PRESS." Sir, —Undoubtedly the immediate object of the strike is the same as that of a foreign eiieniy blockading our porta or besieging our towns: to cause loss, suffering, terror, and inconvenience to the community. The ulterior object is to demonstrate that elections, laws, and courts of justice are a superfluity in New Zealand; that tho only use for Parliaments, politicians, and police is to obey the orders and enforce the decrees dictated by the assemblies, conventions, committees, dictators, rangatiras, commandants, protectors ? presidents, beys, pashas, deys, mahdis, mullahs, khedives, sultans,* mikados, kings, emperors, czars, kaisers, archbishops, archangels, or the to be otherwise described, or titled lords, autocrats, despots, and tyrants of the Red Federation. Every genuine worker has everything to Tear from the success of the strike. Tho greater the loss the Federation succeed in causing the community and employers of labour, the greater shock it succeeds in giving to credit. The more successful it is in demonstrating the jibbing horse can stick up the team in the middle of the river, tho poorer the community will bo, the less money there will be to spend, and tho less inclination people will have to expend what money and credit they possess in employing labour. The man who does his best to break the Strike is a patriot and the best friend of the genuine worker. The man who sxipports the strike is a traitor to his c6untry and an enemy to the worker. — Yours, etc., NEW ZEALAND.