Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1924. FAILURE OF THE STRIKE WEAPON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2728, 3 May 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1924. FAILURE OF THE STRIKE WEAPON.

THE Feilding Star, nimnicMliiii; on (lie strike ns mi out-of-date weapfni and useless as a means of settlin'? labour grievances, which after all have to be settled at the bar of public opinion, says; ‘•Veterans will remember Imw the badly advised workers hopelessly failed in the maritime strike id' 1890-91. the year of the birth of what is known as the New Unionism. That was by way of bein'? a national call-out even to the extent of trying to get the typesetters to refuse to bring out the city daily papers,because they published the ordinary advertisements of the shipping companies, Coming down to very modern times, there is the ease of the strongest and perhaps the most autocratic trade union that ever existed, the Australian wafersiders. Where are they to-day? Killed by their own weapon —the strike. The Australian shearers have suffered a same fate. The New South Wales railway and tramway men lost their strike, and many of them have not had a” decent job or wage, since, and hundreds of its members have had to take up another calling because the strike weapon proved to be a boomerang, coming back and hitting them in the neek. And quite recently the Melbourne police ran amok —and to-day many of them curse the strike for having robbed them of permanent positions.” THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL WHEN the Prime Minister proposed the health of His Excellency the Governor-General, at a function in Wellington, he did so in terms which all people in the country will echo, (says the l’ost). New Zealand was

honoured when the distinguished. Admiral accepted the post of Gov-ernor-General, and the Dominion since profited immensely hy his guidance. Without in any way trespassing upon political ground. His Excellency has been a leader of the people, and his leadership has been marked by that example of service which is a tradition of the Navy. As Mr Massey said, lie has set an example in that Empire instinct which has made the Empire what it is today. Empire does not mean domination and aggression, but leadership and service. It is i this ideal which has been placed before New Zealand by the precept- and example of’her Governor-General. Part icularly has the example been placed before the boys and girls in whose work and play His Excellency has taken an unceasing and kindly interest. To the youth of the community such an example . means much, it makes all the difference between history which slops sliprt of our time and history which links the work of the present with the performance and traditions of the past.