SYNDICALISM.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 17 April 1912, Page 4

SYNDICALISM.

The industrial war, now discovered to be the weapon of the coward and the unprincipled who are anxious to shed the blood, not of their brother, but of their children and their grand- . sires,is the favourite weapon of the syndicalist.' His object in using it is to make himself independent of Parliaments and decent methods of agitation. He shouts a democracy as his slogan of battle, and he proceeds by " stopping the wheels of industry " to the giddiest height of minority rule. It is the favourite phrase. "Whenever a Section wants to rule the world it shouts " stop the wheels of industry. s Fortunately we know now better than ever, so well that no denial is possible - anywhere—the true inwardness of the uncouth yell A. tram agitation in Wellington cries " stop," there is ditto in Brisbane. A general Labourer's union makes the same shout in Auckland. A crank, objecting to what he falsely- calls " militarism," raises the same scream to " stop " the wheels. . They all wish to endanger. the babes and sucklings, the weak and the old, the women and the sick. These are their most cowardly sacrifices. Should they win, they wish to sweep away every order of society except labour. It is on record in the recent writings of syndicalism. Havingsweptitaway it is their insane hope that the disorder incidental to their programme of bloodless death to the poor and the sick, may suggest some method of governing the world according, to the principles of the millennium, It becomes therefore the duty of all citizens to unite against such a prppoganda. Fortunately it is confined to a few of the extreme leaders of labour, • the mm who are trying to pervert honest capable labour to the side of selfish folly and reckless madness. This is th?n the best time to ' combine against it. The country should allow, no sign of this policy to pass un-noticed. In the iarmers lies the hope of the Dominion. Let them obey the call of their organisation every time the syndicalists raise their special call.