PRESS OPINIONS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3060, 23 April 1917, Page 6

PRESS OPINIONS

WICKEDNESS AND FOLLY. \part from the wickedness of a I strike at this juncture, its insensate folly is its outstanding feature (says the Christchureh "Press"). No one in his senses believes, that at .the bidding of a few hundreds of coal-1 miners the Government will call Par-! liament together, and that • Parliament j will at tho behest of the same foolish persons repeal an Act which was passed almost unanimously because it was deemed necessary for the saiety of "tho Empire. The only possiblo effect of the strike is'to bring unemployment to thousands of workers who have no sympathy with the movement, which will increase tlie cost of living to every resident in the Dominion, and will certainly bring • suffering and hardship on the wives and children of tho poorer classes. That the miners, cannot see this for themselves seems almost incredible. If.they are so sunk in brutish ignorance as thenconduct would seem to imply, then, scarcely any punishment can be regarded as too severe for those who have deliberately traded on their ignorance to play the Huns'. came in this hour of the Empire's peril.