The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, July 25, 1912. WHERE WIFE IT END ?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1074, 25 July 1912, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, July 25, 1912. WHERE WIFE IT END ?

Various small items of news in regard to labour troubles, published within the past few days, aie significant. Perhaps the most significant of the series is the advice of the firebrand Tillett to kill the men who are “maddening the workers.” As the worker in the mass never did think for himself, as indeed the history of eveiy movement good or evil is the history ot its leaders, it is entirely possible lor a single man with the blood lust to set Britain ablaze with revolution. The spilling of blood is the instinctive human way to settle grievances. The man without any personal grievance can be supplied with one at the shortest possible notice and in every case — in Britain, France, Germany, Australia and New , Zealaud---griev-auces have been systematically created by men whose proper place is in gaol. There has, in each of these countries, been a spineless pandering to the poisonous demagogue. The men who how! at the employment ol troops to protect the property ot citizens, counsel murder. lu America as has already been seen, the men who endeavour to overthrow society iu au attempt at “liberty, equality and fraternity,” use the secret dagger aud pistol to attain that glorious eud. Another item of surpassing interest, “ many strikers are selling lurnitu.e to purchase revolvers.” Phe British worker isn’t naturally a ruffian.

Besides being the best worker in the world, he is also, in his natural state the best disciplined, and the best fellow. The purchase of those revolvers is the outcome of the influence of men who are not workers, but firebrands of the most fiendish kind. Quench the firebrands and you nip revolution in the bud. Another highly interesting item, “Attorney-General Hughes, of the Federal Labour Government, declares that syndicalism is anarchy, and a danger to unionism.” We know what anarchy is. Anarchy is lawlessness, destruction of life, property and comfort, the rearing, of human parasites, who reap where they have not sown. Syndicalism plans to make anarchists of all workers, not only to steal the means of “production, distribution and exchange,” but to destroy all three. Syndicalism in its perfection means civil war. Syndicalism is rearing its poisonous head in New Zealand. The battlecry of syndicalism in New Zealand is “to hell with all agreements.” It is the refinement of coercion, the apex of destructive organisation, the summit of lawlessness. Syndicalism is the system under which stalwart men are willing to rot in idleness, so that they may be maintained by men who are still at work and whom every syndicalist dubs tool for working. That is the point that beats the ordinary man. The infamous Federation of Labour in New Zealand exists in order to federate every industrial union into one malignant body pledged to conspire against the law to defeat it. Under perfect organisation —which it cannot obtain because of the poverty of intellect displayed by its leaders —an industrial trouble in, say Waihi, created by one man, would throw every united worker in New Zealand idle. There would then be no “workers” to keep the drones fed. The inevitable consequence ? Pillage, theft, war between citizens and Federationists, for the citizen would perforce step , into the Federationist’s job to keep the country moving. This iniquitous organisation, which counsels such tactics would, under circumstances of general cessation of work, at once counsel physical means for obtaining sustenance, as against the ordinary method of earning it by work. It is in every essential a war against work and an advocacy of anarchy. It is believed that now the country is under firmer and more independent political control, the mad orator will gradually find less to feed on. If there is no legislation in existence to deal effectively with every man whose squinting intellect is likely to cause death and destitution, some sane politician should devise a measure in a hurry under which it will be possible to heavily penalise the notorious wasters who are the bottom, middle and top of the labour troubles existing in New Zealand. Public opinion may possibly become more healthy with an intelligent and honourable Ministry in control. The public opinion that would lead the people to become extremely inhospitable to the inciters to revolution is the kind that is necessary at the moment.