FEDERATION TACTICS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 November 1912, Page 2

FEDERATION TACTICS.

(To tho Editor.)

•Sir,—J list a line to congratulate your Shannon correspondent on his outspokenness -md convincing argument on the above question, and also his replies to -Mr Leger aJid ".Mill Hand.'' The Federation oi Laboui have, or are, gradually coming to realise that the executive heads \Alessrs iSemple and Co.) have, through their intemperate speech, action and bad generalship, ruined the Federation for life. -Messrs .Semple and Co. stated, at the com-

mencement of tlic strike, that the Kedenation wos going to paralyse industry!; 11l at the mine owners and others would he forced to give in! What is the result P The workers suffer every time—ail through half a dozen raving agitators, who have by their want of judgment committed j the workers into defying tlx; law. j living in a state of idleness for four months, and after iall the strike funds have vanished, desperately resorting to firearms. Now close on a hundred homos have had to he broken up, furniture, etc., being sold

for a mere pittance, while tlie worst of all—which has yet to be seen and told and lioanl- is the poverty uirnl \ misci*y of it all. The strike was not j 111-ought about through an increase I of wages., but simply a difference be- j fcween two sections over forming a j new union, which, had it 'boon submitted to arbitration beforo a magistrate. judge, or some dot 1 )) thinking i men, the difficulty would have been j fixed up without loss of time or wages, and to the satisfaction of all conccrncd. Mr Loger evades the causo of the strike, hut submits a lot of side issues as cost of living, and dividends earned by the mine company. The ballot box is the pin co for those subjects as jronr logical Shannon correspondent clearly points out. Thanking yon for insorting this.—Yours, etc.. J.F.M.