STAND FIRM.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1901, 8 November 1913, Page 7

STAND FIRM.

(To .Jthp.Editor.), Sir, —I llopo by tho ti'm'o this reachcn you Wellington will liavo made a .Start with her freo lalwur, that is, unless tho strikers have given way in tho meantime. I for one did not anticipate. any settlement being arrived at at Monday's confcrcnce, and 1 think a start iiliould hav6 been mado with free labour 011 Monday, cwifcrenco or no conference. T)ie largo majority of pcoplo are getting tired of liavinp our industries brought to a standstill by a certain section of labour, and think tho sooner the strikers aro shown that they are Mat going i;o be jiltoived to trado ai.iy longer the better. 'If tho .present' GoVernnierit/W&uld'.tnakfi example of somo of those .strike leaders who liavo beciiJprcachin,!! anarchy, and set about putting an end to tho striko by forcible mearisy they \Vouhl receive the thanks of every sehsiblo person from one tiiid of Now' Zealand to tho other. Tho other parts of tho Dominion aro oiilv waiting" for Wellington to show that it clictattiiK to by Red Fcderationifttsiivand the*, ■too, mil iiieit show . that .they are squally prepared to fight tlm . strikers by tho employment of Dunedin, Xcvomber 4, 1913