A WORKER’S VIEW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 72, 25 November 1913, Page 4

A WORKER’S VIEW.

A day or two ago a correspondent of the Wellington “Times,” who openly sings his name to Ins letter, gives some facts from the standpoint of a worker and a good unionist, regarding the foll\ and wickedness of continuing the present strike. “The strike,” lie writes, “has now assumed a phase with which many of ns have no sympathy. Jhe struggle is not between our employers and the i waterside, workers as a body, but between our employers and a small section of ns. These are ditfowri as f advanced ' Socialists and direct actionists. They may probably number 100, whereas we 1 as l a body number*approximately 1500. By their persistency they have captured every office in tl.e union, and to further thenends they have put aside every rule that guards our individual rights and privileges. This minority has used its power to refuse the majority an opportunity to give its unbiased opinion. By a secret ballot if would be found that the majority believe the ideal-' of the. minority to bo extravagant and impracticable, and the methods used to obtain those ideals crude, tyrannical, and not a little bombastic: and the majority see they are being used b\ this minority as a footstool for them to reach tlm fruits of their ambition.”