THE PILGRIMS AND THE STRIKE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14838, 2 December 1913, Page 8

THE PILGRIMS AND THE STRIKE.

TO IHS BDITOR OF "THE PRESS.."-' A'r'Z'4, g- r __Yo_., will regret, in your 'kihtl| interest in tho pilgrims' welfare, -.to*hear that the annual gathering will notj be held this year, for during thoopep**,; atton of looking up tho pilgrims.so they may answer the roll-call, my task fr was arrested by the application of the| provider—Mr John Anderson—to this year's gathering owing to the strifo T and unrest, believing that the could not be, as usual,- an occasion.of; ; rejoicing, while all are suffering more j; or less. So in our sympathy for;*_lw»_ consent to the withdrawal of hisjjkina.!. offer. It is a cause for sorrow-that_in~ our old age we arc compelled to!;wit*-. ness tho determined resistance iki-re** * : fusing careful, arbitration, whichi would give justice ,to both;;? Labour and employers, '■>'-- m'eansr' of defence provided to prevent selfishness, an<r open at; all times of . industrial disputes, a means supplied, to deliver all, honest men from-being;, imposed upon on either side; So now;; we sacrifice our usual happy meeting A this year in order to bo in unity in «**•s fering with our brethren.— "JOHN.DUREY;-.-*!