The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1040, 17 December 1912, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Ix a lengthy article on the United Tab our Party, in a recent issue, the Wanganui Herald sets forth the causes which will bring about the downfall ul the United Labour Party. Referring to the U.L.P. executive’s attitude in connection with the Waihi strike, our contemporary says; “Instead ot repudiating the strike idea, which it professes to I:e against, and upholding arbitration, which it professes to favour, it has shown an attitude of sympathy will) the I.W.W. methods ol the Waihi

strikers, and of hostility towards the new Arbitration Unions al I Waihi and lluuliy. And one 1 reason for this departure from Us 1 own professions is undoubtedly the presence in its leading counsels of men ol Syndicalist sympathies who have managed to push their

way through the operation of the U.L.P's. theorelica 11 y perfect, hut in practice very imperfect, industro political constitution. It is not too much to say that this attitude will cost the United Labour Partv thousands of voles. Its truckling to the strike section will avail it nothing, for the syndicalistic Federation of Labour and its members bate the U-L.P. and all its works. The Arbitrationists of Waihi and Ilunlly, and their sympathisers, will naturally repudiate the U.L.P. after it has repudiated them.. And thousands of workers throughout New Zealand will fail away from the party which, instead of taking a linn stand over the s.llike, or at least leaving il alone, iushecl in on the first opportunity to go back ua

i's own professions. It may be taken for granted that if the workers or New Zealand, considered en masse, had had any real sympathy with the Waihi strikers, or any aversion to the (Nvernmeut’s efforts to maintain order, Ik-fij would have been an industrial ’daze from end to end of tire Don.it,ion long ere this. But the workers didn't blaze worth a e'ent, showing clearly that they recognised that, however unpleasant the Government’s task was, it was the only course open, and showing clearly, also, that the L'.k.P’s, desperate efforts to make parly capital out ol the strike has nut met with any more approbation than the tactics of the blundering Federation of Labour.