EMBROILING OTHERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 6

EMBROILING OTHERS.

The Federation of Labour is at~ temptine to draw into tho struggle which it has embarked on against tho forces of law and order a number of the labour unions which declined to come under its banner at the lato congress. It is a cunning enough move from its point of view for, if_ successful, it would commit the unions which in the past have objected to its methods, to the militant role and tho general strike with all their attendant evils of lawlessness, hardship and suffering. - It has succeeded in. tho first step taken under oovcr of seeking their' advico and influence, and is now, no doubt, hopeful of dragging them further into the conflict. Amongst tho organisations which wero represented at the conference yesterday was the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and that fact was made use of promptly enough by at least one speaker at the mass meeting at Newtown Park. It is pretty generally known that the railway servants aro classified and enjoy the privileges of a superannuation scheme; but the Red. Federation has little regard for those it would use a-s its tools. It would no more scruple to drag the railway servants into its struggle for the supremacy of mob rule, and thus rob them of their classification status and superannuation privilege, than it would scruple to incite its following to terrorise iyrid intimidate a member of the public who had the patriotism and _ spirit to come forward and offer his services to assist to uphold law and order. No doubt the Federation hopes that by embroiling _ unions outside its own ranks it will cover its discomfiture over its 'failure to bludgeon the community into submission to its insoI lent attempt at mob rule.