LABOUR’S MISTAKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 49, 22 February 1912, Page 4

LABOUR’S MISTAKE.

That clangorous weapon which Labour is endeavouring to make full use of, is, according to the “Bulletin,” a device for helping Labour’s enemies at the expertise of its friends. r i'he writer goes on to say: The general strike is an animal of so many aspects that the pedestrian who walks round it is always finding some new feature for consideration. A chameleon isn’t in the samo street with it For fresh appearances. Consider, lor instance, how it shows up in Brisbane. The union bosses called out unionists in general, because of their trouble with Badger. Therefore, those employers who did their little share for unionism lost their assistants, and were compelled to close up at great loss of cash in the present,

and business in the future, or else to confine themselves to what little work they could do with their own hands. Meanwhile, those who loathed unionism, and -employed non-unionists, didn’t have their assistants called out because the unions couldn’t call them out. Before the general 'strike was invented the position -of the union employer was clear and well defined. He simply had to observe certain conditions and things went smoothly. Now all that is changed. Ho may observe union conditions; he may pay higher -wages than the unions demand; yet, when the union bosses take to calling out all manner of union artisans because they have a comparatively trivial row with Badger or some other obis cure person, he is liable to disaster, or possibly ruin, at short notice.