A CANDID OPINION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2524, 30 December 1922, Page 3

A CANDID OPINION.

country,” said a man whose business'brings him info touch with all "classes, of people in the .Dominion, .in conversation with our represen- . tafcive, “it will be among the rank and file of the industrial uuionsts and" ther leaders.. The recent cute move "to set the Arbitration Court at defiance iii connection with the seamen’s avvard, has been an eyeopener to the men, whose faith in their leaders has slumped. .. The leaders circulated all sorts of foolish rumours to prejudice the public against travelling on the steamers —but the rumours were a washout. It was thought by the paid Labour agitators that they had captured the civil service. Here again they have failed and any extreme foolishness by a certain section in the service in the future will result in a clean sweep of the extremists. There are plenty of intellectual young men and women ready to fill .the gaps and carry on if wanted. Make no mistake about that. The Labour Executive has- engineered a ballot on the bonus-reduction question, the result of which will, in my opinion, prove a shock to the instigators and cause a further severance. Extreme Labour has got Buckley’s chance of domination in this young country.’ Their support comes from the industrial classes in the big centres. In all provincial and country towns there is a growing cleavage from the I.W.W. mob. The sheet anchor of the Reds is preference to unionists but the rank and file are getting restless on this point which like a two-edge sword cuts both ways, but deeper into individual freedom of action.”