MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC.

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

MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC.

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economically ill fellers, and it is certain that social evolution is lending lo give Labour gieater freedom in self-assertion and a higher status in industrial relations. But in the general strike, or in the sympathetic strike, which apes it, Labour is casting off noshakles. It is only butting its head against the prison wall. “ When organised thoroughly against Labour, and resolved to fight grimly until one side or the other is beaten into humanity and subjection, Capital is bound to win. In many small strikes the employing class surrenders, because sympathy is against it; though even in these skirmishing successes it is always probably that Labour gains less than it would have gained by arbitration. . . . Even the advocates of the strike (who happily are becoming fewer and fewer among Labour leaders) recognise for the most part that the only way of tactical success in strikes is to isolate the disturbances, so that while one set of workmen are engaged in industrial rebellion, their comrades elsewhere are.‘spoiling the Egyptians ’ for their sustenance. Labour opinion nowadays is divided, for and against the strike; but all the better opinion turns to legal redress of industrial grievances rather than to violence. . . . ‘ The views of Mr Reardon, secretary of the General Labourers’ Union at Wellington (cabled to the Sun) are apt and instructive. He appeals to the men ‘ not to be insane by answering the call for a general strike.’ His advice and his position suggest that be is one of the experienced men who have been through the mill ; he has seen the collapse of widespread strikes through the pressure of sheer hunger on loyal men, and knows what to expect. It is an unhappy thing in the history of industry that each new generation workmen should smash and ctipple themselves in a mad outbreak of indusliial revolt. Time after time it has been proved that such blind butting against the wall does not bring advantage. Legal and political methods are more rapid and more effective. If Labour in New Zealand persists in its attempts at a genet ul strike, it will inevitably learn, in piteous disaster, what every similar outburst has mournfully proved before,”