A REACTION SETTING IN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1906, 14 November 1913, Page 6

A REACTION SETTING IN.

The leaders of the strike campaign are evidently determined to shed the last drop of their brothers' blood in order to postpone as long as possible the inevitable defeat that awaits them. Their latest "'trump card" is to induce all the Arbitration unions in the Dominion to, Ganecl registration., but now that the workers are beginning to think for themselves the number of unions likely to adapt such a suicidal course must be very few indeed. The- reckless leadership of tiro officials, of the federation of Labour has already been sufficiently disastrous to the workers. There is a growing anxiety amongst union' ists to put an effective check on the wild career of the wreckers whose influence is certainly on the wane, Reason and common sense are reasserting themselves, and instead of a further extension of the 1 "down tools'' movement, there are many signs that a decided reaction is seating in, and that the great body' of the trades unionists are, not going to allow themselves to be involved in the downfall of the revolutionary Socialist leaders. In another article we point out that litany of the strikers are going back to. their woric in Auckland, and a movemerit in the same direction has commenced in Wellington, The whole of the "permanent casuals" employed by the Union Company decided yesterday to rcsutoo duty* and a number of the drivers how on strike have decided to form a flew union which will be registered to-day, when probably something like a hundred drivers will be on their carts again. The new Waterside Workers' Union is steadily increasing in. numbers., and the men are making very big wages, Taking all things info consideration there are good grounds for believing that before many days have passed normal conditions will once more prevail as far as the industrial life of the City is concerned.