The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28th, 1924. SECURING PROSPERITY.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1924, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28th, 1924. SECURING PROSPERITY.

Disrrssi.vo wlmt is dcsi-rilied as tin? ignominious collapse of tin* Into unofficial strike in the Isindon Tube railway, nHome paper considers the event satisfactory proof that the Communist nuisance can he put down with firm handling. Although the Government was uncommonly slow in making up its mind, there can he little doubt that when it did, its attitude was one of tlie decisive factors in the cause of the collapse. As the Government was the Labor Cabinet of the day the appreciation of the position becomes the greater, and gives wider hope lor a better condition of affairs in the future. As the English paper remarks, the strike leaders appear to have learnt i that the Government had ready for issue a proclamation under the Emergency Powers Act, and that it intended to follow up the proclamation bymoving naval ratings into the power stations in the event of a strike. This discovery paralysed them. If the country is convinced tlwt the Government intends to maintain a firm front in fu. pipe AEninst th- i r re s P on si b l? firehrnmls

who are stirring up these constant strikes, this will do more to restore confidence and revive trade than anything that has vet happened. Ministers may rest quite certain that in such circumstances they will have the hearty support <d the whole public. lilies have lor .some time heen in possession of full information a.s to the Oonitimnist plots and propaganda here, and as to the large sums whieli have been sent I rout Russia with the double purpose of wrecking tlie prudently governed trade unions and destioying llriti.slt prosperity. Nothing could Is? more desirable than that this authentic tied trustworthy inlormation should he laid before the. House ol ( ominous at an eiitly opportunity, when it meets after the holidays. If Great. Britain is to prosper, or indeed to exist, work must la* done and we must all put our hacks into doing it. So long as every few weeks there is a more or less serious labour upheaval, and so long ns the (.'omniunist.s are able to secure the repudiation of agreement* between trade unions and employers, no one can go ahead and no industry call prosper. We are convinced that trade unionists are in agreement "ith the public outside the trade unions in detesting the Communists and their intrigues. The money which the Red* waste is not all from Russian pockets: much of it is lilchcd from trade union toads frovided for the sick and old The Government that crushes the Communists will he the most popnlat Ad ministration for a decade. Nor is tin task dillicult. Only in Russia has i civilised community succumbed to Com monism, and there the Governmenl ran away, and tin? public had not tin necessary backbone to compel it to di its diitv.