TRADE UNIONISM. AND THE FUTURE.
“Every dav makes it- clearer that the trade union of the future, if trade unionism is to play the part it might and should in the improvement of our social life, will trust more and more to constructive diplomacy and less and less to the weapon of the strike. Nobody supposes that we shall ever make our industrial system so perfect that strikes will he unknown. Under certain circumstances a strike is the only means of defence. But in iiu r modern world the trade union leader who understands his job will regard the strike as his last resort, and lie"will feel of it, as a wise statesman feels of war. that it represents failone.’’—“Manchester Guardian.”
A T AROER lIBERTY TO YOUTH. “Children are allowed a latitude denied to us. and I think it is to the good. T would not drag on my children as mv geneHition did. nor would I teach them to look askance at joy. Talking the other day to a professional friend of rav period, the product of a nominal orthodox home, he told me
that the. issue of the old discipline was simple to kill his joy ‘complex.’ ‘Even now.’’ he staid. ‘I find myself choking to impulses to happiness.’ And the same applies to youth. I am tempted sometimes to think that it is jealousy for lost years tlmt prompt to modern misanthropy. )outh was steeped in the doctrine of self-iepres-sion and self-denial for the future's sake. Jov vUis but a pawn to he used at a later day—a day that never came. Perhaps tho youth of our times coif’d do with more denials; certainly the earlier Cem could have done with less. Ris not"an easy task to balance the <rnius against tile losses. . . Life oiler a larger liberty to everybody—children and vontli. pauper find prisoner. The larger liberty offers large opportunity even to do wrong. Time teaches restraints, and honour —even civic or social honour—is begotten in trust The world lias moved on, and, in niv humble judgment, it has moved, and is moving, towards la brighter. bettoT day.”—,T: A. It. Cairns.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1927, Page 3
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