The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1913 A RIGHT MOVE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 61, 12 November 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1913 A RIGHT MOVE.

| From end to end of New Zealand today there will be [lie fullest approval of tin' action of the authorities in arresting some of the most blatant leaders of the present disastrous strike movement, a movement for which it becomes every day more apparent that such as they are largely I responsible. A long-suffering community was indeed wondering how 'much longer it was to he insulted by 'the impudent falsehoods and vile sedition, uttered in public places by such iiuon, and how much longer in the name of that liberty of speech we all love iso dearly such brutal license and in tiinidation should be permitted. There. Ihas been open avowal of disregard for law and order, and the Federation of [Labour agitators have made no secret (if the fact thai they are not prepared ito light any dispute on the merits of jthe particular case, but to rely on .terrorism and intimidation to gain the ends desired. What these ends really iarc there can be no doubt. They are! avowed wreckers; they challenge law and order and their goal is anarchy. I Mob violence and brutal assault have j ibeen their method of working, and it j lis high time that the country as n! iavliolp realised what we are in danger 'of. The lesson that if appears necessary to drive home to those who have I not looked at the great j "oblem of]

life iu all its aspects, is that every man must have the right to live anil the right to work. No •section of men should over be permitted by the State by force or by intimidation of am description to prevent any other person exercising his fight to work. Every man has of course the right to say he will not work for any other man ,„■ body of men, hut it he should in any manner interfere with the man who is prepared to work in his place then most vigorous punishment shouH follow. The State must fully protect its citizens against the sort of intimidation which is being to-day experienced at the chief gateways ol th..' country.