STRIKERS' WIVES' APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1902, 10 November 1913, Page 7

STRIKERS' WIVES' APPEAL

A REPLY FROM THE COUNTRY

Dear Watersiders' Wives, —In this TMiriiing's paper 1 found your "Appeal to Specials," begging thorn to ■ return poaceably to their homos, c.to. | It is so absolutely silly. First, you say you li.ivo no quarrel with us, and wo aro taking tho bread from yimr children's mouths, yet you. don't object to taking the bread from our childi'coii Months of work locked tip in trucks awaiting your''pleasure— our bread, Christinas toys, otc. —and you expcct our men to sit down and let it spoil If tho striker Will not do his work, ho shall not prevent others working—hence the need of "specials." As to tho batoning t and bludgeoning, our men don't do Hint unless you start first. Then I hope you get 6110 back, and a right good slap, too ; Thousands more are only waiting impatiently for their turn to go and work at tho ports, where eventually many of tlio old workers will be crowded out for ovfir.. 1 don't think there, is : any fear of thorn leaving Wellington after your deputation, or an unlooked-for deputation might niect them .Qfl their Totu'rii: Wo farmers' wives uphold them. If every uiiioii in New Zealand is with you, everyone clso is against you. Men who sro eompotent t-o judgo—-of world-wide Now Zealand is the workmen's paradise; yet your husbands aro for ever striking. Wo aro all very glad it has cotr.o to_a final head, and a thorough beating will bo wholosoine. to strikers and their wives in future.—l am, etc.,

FARMERS' WIVES. P.S.—As to seeing cur husbands safely to station—thanks, but lot us catch you, Stratford, November 7»