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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1925, Page 2

Tin; seamen's strike pursues the evil tenor of its wax , with hut lit lle variation. This despite the adverse elieet of tlie maritime trouble on the overseas trade of both Australia and New Zealand. Mr liruce. Prime Minister, lues set up a Deportation Hoard to dial with some oi the chief figures in the drama in Australia, lull the principal work of the hoard so tar has been to meet ami adjourn lints playing into the bands nl the agitators and piling up high lusts for the administration nl llic Hoard. In New Zealand, .dr Coates Prime Minister, has promised a "statement " on the uia t ter. I here i- a jolly-hack line of action in hut It instances. Meantime the menace grows, and the prospects of very heavy loss arc increasing. -lust why our Prime Minister cannot say. or, better still, do something to remove all cause for equivocation. is not clear. There is not any greater menace to the national weal at the moment, than this ruthless action nf the extremists which is allowed to take it- course without cheek or hindrance. The iinintry actually i- in the hands of these dehors of the law who chinin' to vent their dispute on tin* country, while organised Labor within the Dominion seems bout on standing hv their " comrades." The Labor Party "1 New Zealand is the silent party in the di-pule. watching the t rend nl events wit It a paternal eye on the law-breaker-. This condition ol affairs is deplorable I rum the national viewpoint. It indicates, on the part ol t |;e authorities, a -iipineiie-s w hich cannot, be described a- tolerance, ii seems to be a breaking down, fearful of -onir unborn consequences it drastic

step- arc taken. Hv this weakness there i- more to lose than to gain, and the cost i- piling up day by day against the producers and real workers ot the count ry. The present Government iproving quite effete in I lie present national crisis.