LABOUR’S SLOW AWAKENING.
Classes suffer, they are envious of other classes, but they dare not attack them because they have no combination, because they do not know their power. * * * Combination begins in the committee rooms of friendly societies and goes in those of trade unions, where it assumes a more militant attitude ; by degrees a more vigorous spirit is infused into it and politics come under consideration. Once it has started on that path, the new power either bends the system or breaks it; it cannot be defeated, because it has behind it numbers, grievances, and voracious ambition. One day, in all countries, when these combined men fully understand the powi r vested in them, they will rise and demand more than the system will give, and then we shall see another revolution when none who are neutral will be spared.—W. L, George in “ France in the Twentieth Century.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 609, 14 December 1909, Page 4
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149LABOUR’S SLOW AWAKENING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 609, 14 December 1909, Page 4
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