without bettering their condition. The terms of employment at present on the railway can lead to this without the men worrying themselves in entering on agitation that will only lead to misery. It is a wholly different thing in England where employers must carry on the struggle with men on strike only at great loss to themselves, and where in consequence they can be so often compelled to give in. Nothing can really make our Government and the Brogdens give in if they wish to hold out. The country can do without the railways; many curse the day that railways were proposed, and Government will certainly not put itself past itself to push the works ahead if the workmen' are unwilling. It is because we know that this struggle will only lead to disaster and suffering to the men themselves that we tender this advice, and we do not hesitate to say that any one that in the circumstances advises the men to continue the struggle is the men's worst enemy.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1480, 14 November 1872, Page 3
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