THE STRIKE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1176, 25 November 1913, Page 4

THE STRIKE.

FOR ANARCHY! INCITEMENTTO VIOLENCE. LAWLESSNESS ADVOCATED An anarchist organ in Auckland, published by the New Zealand Branch of the anarchist 1.W.W., is boldly advocating a flouting of the law and inciting strikers to do violence to workers. Here is one extract from an issue dated 15th November (the capitals and quotation marks are in the original text): “ Government” rests enforce —not necessarily violence. If the whole working class of New Zealand strike as one man victory is assured. It the strike is only partial its success will depend on how much 11 free labour” Eat can get going. That in turn depends on the degree of LAW maintained by the workers. LAW is not ink and paper—paper can’t stop you irom taking food and intercepting scabs ; only active pickets can do that. An active WORKERS’ SPECIAL POLICE FORCE, to maintain “law and order,” would, if properly organised, clear some of the smell away and lessen the danger of typhoid in the streets of Auckland. —F. Hanlon. Other excerpts from the same issue: When a strike is declared it becomes the duty of the organisation to effect a complete shut down of the plant. For that purpose warnings are mailed, or wired, to other places, to prevent working men from moving on the rfflicted city. Pickets are stationed around the plant or factory, or harbour, to slop workers from taking the places of the strikers. Amateur scabs are coaxed, persuaded or bullied away from the seat of tbe strike. Persuasion having no effect on tbe professional strike breaker, he is sometimes treated to a brickbat shower. Shut down the p’aut ; shut it down completely, is the watchword of the strike. The Church Socialist League, of Christchurch, in supporting the strikers. ‘Fine and Dandy’ public meetings are being held. The farmers have threatened to work the cargo, and strikers have been advised to go and attend to the farms. Rebels are offering themselves, and being accepted as ‘scabs,’ so that ,£3OO worth of ‘accidents’ may happen any old lime—as in Auckland. E'ood is being carted to the homes of ‘Fat’ at Remuera and elsewhere. The strikers anywhere but Auckland would have overturned them and taken the food for themselves long ago. Among pamphlets which the anarchist organ urges workers to read are : ‘‘The Right to be Lazy,” “Social General Strike,” “Direct Action and Sabotage,” and “Chunks of 1.W.W.-isrn.”

SYDNEY PAPER’S COMMENT

Under the heading of “ Banging Their Heads Against a Wall,” the Sydney Sun deals editorially with the New Zealand strike. In the course of the article it says:—“the strike leaders in New Zealand are wooing calamity. The general strike which has been ordered, and seems likely to be partly effected, is bound to be disastrous to the whole community, but more disastrous to the workman than to anybody else. If there is any lesson plainly written In modern industrial history, it is that an organised strike on a huge scale hits the workman hardest. It is foredoomed to failure. No matter what the grievances of labourers may be, and whether their cause against employers be just or unjust, when they declare industrial war on the rest of society they are beaten before the struggle begins. It may be true Hat Eabour is