A FIGHT AGAINST BOLSHEVISM

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 5

A FIGHT AGAINST BOLSHEVISM

■ STRUGGLE IN AUSTRALIA FIRM STAND TAKEN BY THE EMPLOYERS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. Sydney, February 12. The "Daily Telegraph,” in* a special article dealing with tho industrial position, says; "The general public fails to realise that there is in progress one of the bitterest industrial struggles in the history of Australia. On one side are the employers, who are determined that if industry is to live in this country It shall 'be free from the unreasoning but deliberate obstruction which it has suffered from in recent years. On the other side are the dupes of industrial extremists, whose sinister and calculated purpose is to wreck the existing economic system and put Bolshevism in its place. The legitimate trade unions federations •are placed in an unenviable position betiveen these contending forces. The present position in the shipping strike means that for the first time in Australia a body of employers is making a frontal attack on industrial methods which the younger workers have learned from the Independent Workers of the World, Bolsheviks, and other fanatics, and are seeking to put into effect.”

"A similar fight is rapidly developing between the coal miners and coal owners,” declares the paper, which publishes a list of fifty strikes in five weeks which have occurred on* the northern coalfields. "The position is similar on the southern coalfields. The mine owners declare that they will be compelled to take a line of action which they are unwilling to take unless soon there is some improvement in the position. The employers claim that a fight is not being put up against unionism. The emnloyei} is willing to assist craft unionism in every possible way if it can secure industrial pence. The whole tendency is to give tho worker as big an* interest in his work as is possible. The fight is against Bolshevism, and is being made as much on behalf of (lie community generally ns for the employers. and they look to the public generally and the solid body of workers for "assistance in the fight.”—Press Assn. SEAMEN PROTEsFaGAINST LOCK-OUT ® Sydney, February 12. Mr. Walsh has replied to the secretary of the shipowners stating that the seamen protest against the lockout. He also says they are prepared to resume under tin conditions existing prior to the lockout, or to meet the owners in conference. —Press Assn.