HOW OBLIGING.
Sir,—The Federation of Labour having been igmmiiriiously defeated, some of its leaders placed under lock and key, hundreds of its dupes deprived of the means of procuring a livelihood, these loud-toiiguod orators now have the extraordinary effrontery to express their "willingness" to have ihe whole dispute submitted at once to Sir Joshua Williams's uncontrolled discretion. How obliging. Whether His Honour will take tins as a compliment or an insult is not within my province to determine, lint it is not exactly that ''willingness" or otherwise of the Federation of Labour thai, the people are concerned about, it- is not. the special pleading of tin; politician, nor those, high humanitarian principles with which they have suddenly been endowed that affvcl the public conscience. What the public, is concerned about, awl what does affect the: public conscience is ;i finul and permanent settlement of this most unfortunate dispute, li: will not he settled at, the instigation "of a moribund, defeated and discredited party — tin: Federation —nor will it he settled through the serpentine methods of those paid agitators whose mission Is to set up class against class and who, in seasou and out of reason, have preached ihe gospel of hatred, malice, and all 1 niiciiurilabloness. The public will have something to say about the settlement, and the public have sufficient backbone to want, to know some! bins; about I hose unions who have treated their Arbitration agreements, as so much tissue paper. The public will insist Hint the revolutionary clement shall be taught
i! severe and a salutary lesson. They will insist that the full machinery _ol' Ihe law shall bo applied with a severity that in future he who runs may read, and they will also insist that tho malevolent power of the .Federation shall be finally and ii'rotriovablo; iirokcu, pVcii
though it hangs on: to tlio variegatwl coat-taiis of tiie great panjandrum n( Awarna.—l am, etc.,. F. MiI?ST.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 9
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321HOW OBLIGING. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 9
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