OCTOBER 28.

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 November 1913, Page 2

OCTOBER 28.

THE HUNTLY REVOLT.

Most remarkable about the miners’ strike at Huntly is that it did not happen sooner. Twelve months’ deliberately planned and persistent pin-pricking*, victimisation, and outrage, followed the hieing of a fake agreement with a “ union ” which existed chiefly in the imagination of the bosses and the carrion that hovered round the northern mining districts last year. The most conservative arbitrationist, knowing the facts, will endorse the miners in their “ breaking ” of such an “agreement." The capitalist press has said the strike is due to the influence of “the Federation” (leaders). We doubt it. The miners have been driven to revolt with or without the approval of national officers. They have been harassed damnably in an attempt to smash the union. The most flagrant tyranny lias been resorted to by the management, who, in their splenetic greed, have underestimated the fighting spirit of the miners. Recent national developments, however, indicate that a kick, is coming from outside Huntly.