The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1913. THE LYTTELTON LESSON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 67, 19 November 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1913. THE LYTTELTON LESSON.

The little lesson which the Christchurch people learned at the hands of Lyttelton strikers yesterday ought to at least have one good effect. It should prove finally, even to the most guileless and trusting, that the word of the Red Federation leaders is-worth nothing at all; that solemn promises and agreements are merely undertaken to gain an immediate advantage,! and will he broken without one mo-!

I incut’s consideration when it suits the Federation to break them. That is the history of the whole business, and that was emphasised in Lyttelton again yesterday. It cannot he wondered at that the strikers’ action is regarded as a direct challenge to bring in special constables and arbjtiation labor to work the shipping, and Urn thousand South Island specials, with Colonel Chaffey at their head, which are now rapidly gathering, are tin* straightout answer to the challenge. Surely even people who were most inclined to give credence to the [ mouthings ol those who assured thei people Unit the men might he relied j upon to aer peacefully if the special' constables wen* withdrawn, will now realise that the authorities knew lies! ami acted very rightly in what they did. Meanwhile, with the great fact before their eyes that the Athenie—loaded b\ the farmers with the higgest cargo of produce to ever leave -New Zealand in one vessel—got awatv; from Wellington on her homeward voyage yesterday without the least 1 trouble despite the bind and nonsense! ialked by agitators and strike* leaders! the workers who have been so cruel-! i.v misled will cease to place reliance* on the -I* ederation or its foolish manifestoes.