PROGRESS OR " SABOTAGE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14837, 1 December 1913, Page 8

PROGRESS OR " SABOTAGE.

; (From;tho :< _.e^ ; _^____d;H^d3ft ■ Any ■■■ ■ idea that ■'■ the.- r Labour can terrorise tho _nd_st__i| public of Auckland or of the Dommipiatil into abject submission, to its should by now have been oomplete&f dissipated. ; ; SyndicaHsm is__o';alics|p§ ' all' colonial 'principles' that there wmii ; was a ; possibflity _f '..any;; _y£dic»Ji«tt''S ganisation obtaining control of a sing_l union in New Zealand by fair and stitutional means .but the * syn _icalist|

is supremely indifferent to means' and . ___!___.;• By yi<_ent langu_gei;f;|ib|| ,v__oi_i:t_--a^'''%'.'i''' l^eu_k^'^'a]_^|: | and by a deHbera.te misrepresentationl of the questions at issue, unions have, been swept away from the influence fcifi their wiser and more experienced hers, and have . become.. in too"'i.___M r . cases the mere tools of ; sy_idic_list i _gi ; ri' tators. It must; he ■Vrecogaiaedj-RiofJ course, that if there were no grievances'; there would ho* nothing for _tgi_l_.ii| to feed upon, btit __Uwho__ork;who]or| hoartodly for industrial peace and;.s_-.| rial progress endeavour -to*.rembCTS grievances, and;do no.»welwme themx_s| a lever- wherewith tos minds of .'men.•'..\llte--v_ _deratirai'Mi_| Labour has nev^> : attempt to encourage gooa;. feeling and | mutual understanding between employ**,, ers and employed. 1 ?. •o_'' , '_io.contrMy J ■■ it has perpetuallyI*-fanned.1 *-fanned. misundw. f standing, and__s'c^__';.and!l>_rve«ett- : used whatever influence ~;■:; to make cordial^mdtatir^ quite deliberate policyis to-?»."__^.»» ■' I.W.W. movement; whi(_i:|j» spring of th- |_dos_t_«i -of; M^^t . ganisation. By means -of . tion of Labour our colonial nmons, have a been used to carry out the schemes and;* plans of the LW*W.. £n anarchistic body having tion.: of the existing society as its aim'and *urpo«t*j fh? facts are that method of aliens and syndicalism is the scheme of of civilised peoples, that anarchy *n : tm its forms is never sort of men who hato the;st_4ej ; «» : . havo-no. faith-in peoples who invented "sabotage; £{V*k far behind our New Zealanders .ffiggfc that makes for freedom, general prosperity. Syndicate never gained as much in all its ,*MWg_ lent career as constitutional mctOOOi| gain constantly in a casual nod.rjOTjJ trump, ed victory. The _ ederatio*|g| Labour can only point to a defeats and disasters, lor its;.tact.es, -ajs; such that tuey cannot -possibly in a free and democratic There is not a State.in the wort& which has done as much for'-.»,*«"*§E as -.ew Zealand, nor a fc_ato,which.jfflfi do more with the cordial public opinion if reactionary-doetriW;; do not hamper and emoarraso State £*£>. tion and pulblic goodwill, is an?™*® io ignorant and so foolish as -to-tbinfc that sic_ Zealanders need go to mm crn Europe for instrncuon m maintain the rights of workers,'._*;H. the United/States for methods; ganisation 'which may prevent dustrious from being pressed down ; -w.t poverty and crime? The situation ?*fi pathetic in its folly. Our seamen «J* tho best paid and best nieu in all the oceans. _Mr water?oersmay cam more in a day than the: : .o»a world wharf-labourer can in Our carters, our miners, our artasattVi, our craftsmen and our labourersare.«;sured in rights and' privileges, in ,c&m fort and respect, which m most:otaer, lands are unknown and To them come these I.W.W. agitatcrtfe with their foreign terms their catch phrases and thonr _Wj tices drawn from Sicilian Jlaiias^. »">% French Apaches and American .-.* Mog,< Maguires," inviting them to away their democratic unions, t_or,j secret ballots, their honest agreements,: and their law-nrotected standing and ttfc join in seeing"what "sabotage" for New Zealanders. ■'■;•; ."H'syf-,