LABOUR AND ORDER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 169, 11 April 1919, Page 8

LABOUR AND ORDER

MR, CLYKES'S APPEAL. At a farewell dinner given to liim by (lie Ministry of Food, whose stuff, lid . said, had saved him from the predicted I late of being hanged, .Mr.' J. It. Ciynes, • j M.P., was presented by Lis old colleagues • | with a souvenir in tho shape- of copies • of the first two ration books, enclosed in 1 silver. Touching on the future of Lal bour, he asked Labour to accept tho veri diet of tho polls, which was tho only ) weapon it needed to use in order to obi tain its ends. Labour should stand for 3 order, for law, beOa,use the time might ■ come when Labour may l.ave to make tho ; law, Wihen Labour;will expect and call ' on other sections of the community to J respect the law, and if -Labour wishes to ■ see that esampio followed, Labour must ' not hesitate to set the example. . The 1 verdict of the poll for the time boing is ' a verdict which Labour men should accept, and he protested against those open ' invitations to tho wage-earners to uso 1 the weapon of the strike and seek lo f menace either the public or Parliament with the threat that J.'.en will come out \ in the street and leave the workshops \ because their men have not been re- ! turned to the House of Commons, s i