LABOUR MEMBER ON THE STRIKE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43066, 9 March 1907, Page 4

LABOUR MEMBER ON THE STRIKE.

:£',>■ fV->r^ ; -V. ' . ._' ; qw 5 rjportfir as to tfio ®fcnk©,| was tihirai;toa4! 'been fort/ eaghfc hours’ raiin.,- ho said, “tho w rf- thing!' couldf, uever have happened. ' Tbs shee p oonild h ave gone baicik. t o the naddooka, and stopped there, if necessary, for mon+hs, The aofciojji of ■ the ’men/’ nc~teb6iiiiied, “sfcrikosi at the' whole fabric .of , indiustrialisnL> If • : ' f the men faal^,tl^ v : a revival of .sweating', ©utbe part of 'em ployers, for .they Trill'. certainly not if< bet prepared to aiocfept a doctrine w*hich means - ail .give on- their , part. The .offer of the companies for/a eomproi' -j -'niise’had been a most fair and gener;V;i- •' ous one, .and it was one ( that the men > ahoidd 'have aioc©T>tecL As> it was, they were simply curbting thedr own. throats. * The striked* - were pulling down the ».- whole ArhitraSon Aj<jt, an Act jvihidh had been passed- i n their own pniterJr rdndi,- the effects not; stop ' • with 5 Mifa dondusioon of the present outixreak. The men were .ill-advised, ai..fch&uglhi' fire sheep this year bad-been A? nptioviM‘ly .Kpr- 5 ' ' ■ 3q?L/ish* f -<? n: -- 0 ; %count lof tfie n;h«^--i// fee&i.BiU’tj tb®y ' ‘ ‘should have fbughit their remedy by , - degitirpate mean*?'