WAVE RED.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 January 1914, Page 2

WAVE RED.

It is instructive to read that the Labour Council of Sydney has condemned the " despotic methods ''of dealing with the South African Strike .aid has wired telling General Botha its opinion and has at t\w- same time urged the Labourites of the misguided continent to replace the Parliamentary " representatives of capitalism- by the representatives oi' democracy." Here is another wimple of ihe folly and narrowness of those leaders of labour. With them all treatment that does not take them lying down in gutters is " despotic" and everything

that does not grovel before their tyrannous edicts is contrary to democracy. The labour outbreak in Africa planned to work with dynamite", they determined to resist the government by force, they "played triumphant revolution, they allowed not any claim against their wishes to prevail. They got the only reply possible to a self respecting community. They had even appealed to the blacks in a way calculated to let loose the dogs of rapine, lust and murder that hunt together in racial war. It was an insolent reckless domineering minority planning assault on the rights feelings and interests of the whole community. The community being a self-respecting body with strongly developed instinct of self reliance and self respect mobilised. 80,000 men in twenty-four hours and gave the insolent reds five minutes to come down out of their barricaded hall or be blown to atoms, by the artillery of the state. As Mr Millar said in the House during a debate on the equally unprincipled and futile outbreak here no community ever allows a minority to rule it by riding over it rough shod. Africa gave a brilliant and prompt example and the insolent red flag was trailed in the well deserved dust. These are the facts of the case and very proud of them are all men who love liberty, throughout the world. They thank God that there is in the British umpire the grit to stand up against the modern terror of Domocracy-nm-mad. Yet this is the moment chosen by Sydney Eeds to send that absurd telegram, to Pretoria, Could there be anything more futile ?