The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1893. STRIKES AND STRIKERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 45, 22 August 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1893. STRIKES AND STRIKERS.

There is a turn in the tide at last. By recent cablegrams wo fire informed that the strikers in England are not having things all their own way now, and that tb« beginning of tho end has arrived of the reign of terror they have held for so lonjr, and with such tyrannous results. In plnco of strikers being the attacking party, they have boen attacked and defeated by tho angry tradestrien, minors, and mechanics who wore irritated by the losses they had sustained by the strike. This incident occurred in Wales and tho fight was a fierce one, as may be supposed when ono remembers the sturdy character of the men engaged in it. A singular fact is that, wo are told, ten thousand men assembled at Pontypridd and prayed for Divine guidance during the sttiko. Men who could 1o thia are very much in earnest. No doubt tho married men when they see their wives and families in a state of semi-starvation, while the means of earning good and sufficient for them all lie ut their bauds, yet which they are forbidden to undertake by a section of their fellows, has excited a powerful feeling of antagonism to the latter which has found vent in violence. Another cause of irritation is in seeing the secretaries and officials of the trade unions, or by whatever name they are called, clad in fine raiment and faring sumptuously every day, waxiug fat on tho hard won earnings of their deluded victims. Their eyes are open* ing to the folly ot slaving for these idlors, whose only gift is a kind of blatant oratory. We hope that the Boards of Conciliation and Arbitration will ultimately bo tho powers to which appeal will bo made, and all difficulties between employers and employed settled without the intervention of violence. It is tho weak and helpless women and children who are the greatest sufferers in these trade disturbances, while the strong guilty men who cause them escape. We hope tho lesson givon by the forcible expression of opinion iv Wales, will huve v beneficial effect. We deprecate the conflict, as subversive of law nud order, but admit that good may como of it because the strikers hayo now learned that violence may be met by violence, and most important of all, that they have moa of their own clasp, supportod by the law, against thorn.