LESSONS TO BE NOTED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1908, 17 November 1913, Page 9

LESSONS TO BE NOTED.

Sir, —Now that the heats of the lamentable conflicts in which wo have been involved aro somewhat abated, we are iii a better position to profit by certain lessons emphasised by it. ' Two major principles have been, overlooked. In relation to all social progressed attempts for it, it is absolutely certain that tho appeal to fordo evokes force; this is axiomatic. It follows that those who make the appeal have s and can have, no equitable ground of complaint when tho inevitable consequence follows.

The other outstanding principle that has been ignorod is this: that no movement for social advance or amelioration that disregards this supreme obligation to truth and fidelity can, in 'the ultimate, succeed. Society in any decentsense can - only to cemented and ihcld together by mutual confidence, and such confidence can only Continue when and where men are loyal to their word. Thero is one atlier outstanding lesson to bo noted,, and that is that- there is no other branch of labour in this land that is anything' like so potent as tho agricultural and pastoral, It is not only the fact that those engaged therein outnumber any other class of labour men, but that all, other classes depend Upon theml Nothing can possibly : be more fatuous and ficlf-destriietivo than action, taken in tho name, and for the interests of, labour at large which ignores this. Lot us remember that when all is said and done we are interdependent, and members one of another.

Tho sufferers by this strike cofnmand the sympathy of all folk, whatever judgment they pass upon, it; and wo do not griidgo to rocogniso the spirit of loyalty to leadership that tho majority of the strikers have been, prompted by, and their self-restraint, but wo are eager that they and all cf us should recognise that regard for the first principles of morality is essential to progress—l am.ietc., ALl'lll® NORTH. • Ngaio, November 14, 1918. , ANARCHY. Sir, —In tho present industrial upheaval I notice the payors are calling a certain class ultra-Socialists. _ A title Socialist is a man. to bo admired, and it is a libol on such a titan to bo eln.sscd with the'type under: discussion. Thcro is only one term to bd applied to the man who threatens with half-bricks, or matches, or other violence, or who shouts "scab" at his fei]oW-ui)ionist who openly votes for what he considers right. Such an 0110 is,'not to mince matters, an Anarchist. Let our newspapers namo them as Such. During tho last few days I have been a quiot obsorvor. Oh one occasion 1 saw a voluble striker "converting" (?) a "special."' He was especially strong in justifying the stop-work meeting an being the most convenient time to got all tho men together A mftn standing near said ho had been a unionist for maUy years, that his mates worked all night, and Saturday was their only frsa night in tlio week, yet thc-y never considered it necessary to hold a stop-work meeting. As soon as ho said this, a vicious-looking specimen of humanity swung into the circlc. and Used most insulting and bbscejie language- towards tho unfortunate Arbitratioiiisfc,

At the same spot 1 heard another man say they should use more matches: that was tho way to g6t their rights. Another suggested that a clia-rge of gelignite with a foot fuse would setfclfl a certain hotel. Still another took from an insido pocket a homo-made baton, which was loaded with lead at the bottom, and with much lurid language declared what ho would do with it to the "specials" if ho had a chance. • Such aro some of the types af men who are trying to bring about fi. state of Anarchy in this cOuntfy; and I afn informed on tho best of authority that there are a large number of Very undesirable men in the old' Waterside Workers' Union, whom it woulfl he absolutely essential to exclude from any respectable body of I hope tho. controlling authorities will stand firm,' and refuso on any terms to r-ecttg-nise that vicious and. anarffhial iissofiiation misnamed tho Federation af La-bour.-—I nm, etc., ORDER NOT ANARCHY-. November 14, 1913.