A SCRIPTURAL STRIKE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 55, 29 March 1912, Page 14

A SCRIPTURAL STRIKE.

Sir,—-I have read with interest Mr. Mickey's article, "Lest we Forget," siha "the subsequent correspondence, criticism and ceiisure, and I would like to call your readers' attention to a strike about 1491 8.C., in which the participants not only broke their agreements, but made themselves such a nuisance that their employers were only too glad to leb them go and aJI that belonged to them. Their leaders, however, were not satisfied merely with taking all they possessed (and we are informed they had "flocks and herds, even very much caftle"), but told their people to go to their employer! and borrow anything they needed — jewels of silver and jewels of gold, and raiment—and they borrowed all they wanted and never returned it. What a howl would ascend to heaven from the capitalistic press and many so-called unionists if such advico and action .were adopted to-day, yet we are told ih'afc tho Scriptural strikers of whom I writ* w«pp> following Divine instructions. If, a Socialist proposed such * tiling to-day he would be branded as a robber, a menace to society, and what not,, and would be up before the beak and clap{toed in "quod" quicker than no time/ 't[would recommend our•'we'ak-spiritccl unionist* M read Krodue, chap. 12, r; 15 And 26. T think our etrike load«r#

are very tamo in theif actions compared with those of U9L 8.C., especially when you consider that the then strikers had "flocks , arid herds, oven very much cattle." What do presentday strikers own? Abso-bally-luloly nothing.—Yours, etc., HEADER.