ANTI-SOCIALISM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 October 1907, Page 5

ANTI-SOCIALISM.

London, October 10. The Duke of Rutland, in a letter on the subject of the Kirkdale election urged that the Unionists should actively fight socialism, "that vilest of iKjmtii creeds." Their leader, Mr Balfour, ought to take oil his gloves and show the hopeless dangers awaiting any country which countenanced the loathsome, objects of socialism—undiluted athiism, theft and immorality. When English.men recognised that the Liberals were only kept in by a party of foci .li.-ts. they would make a clearance of such men as Grayson and Keir Hardie The .National Un'on Conservative Association is equipping twenty vans to accommodate peripatetic trade union Speakers, who will address working men in the streets and at the mill gates and distribute literatnre with the object of counteracting the Socialist movement.

OTAGO EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION. ARBITRATION CONDEMNED. Per Press Association. i Dimedin, Last Xight. The annual meeting of the Otago Employers' Association was held this after- ; Boon, Sir. J. C. Thomson (president) in the chair. The annual report stated that the Association conld claim to represent practically the whole of the employers in Dunedin and suburbs, and in concluding said the one enemy which . threatens the interests of the Dominion generally, and employers in particular, is the growing socialism of the labor party. It is manifest that before long an independent socialistic labor party, whose aim will bo to exploit Parliament in the interests of one class to t!ie cxclusion of all others, will have to be contended with. It therefor* behoves employers to strengmen their organisations and to maintain their finances so that they may be ready to meet all emergencies. The chairman's address dealt mainly with the Arbitration Act. tho speaker contending that the Act could never fulfil the purposes for which it was created. It was an Act that was to be used for intervention when a \ Strike was imminent. They knew too to their cost that it had never lieen *N«ed in that way. but in totally different dftvtinns, to the demoralising of the working classes and the' weakening of the friendly relations that should exist between employers and employees. He held that the Act, which could not oe forced absolutely, should not long cumber our Statute-books. It bad been a very expensive experiment, and sto-id condemned as a failure. The position reached to-day wag that persistent efforts were made to prevent youn;- people from learning trades and to prevent elderly men and.those unable to claim first-class rank from earning :i livelihood, to seriously reduce the efficiency of labor, to lower effort, to destroy ambition, to repel capital, and to widen the breach between capital and labor. Instead of promoting their working in harmony, the widening of the breach was being steadily increased, and was being accentuated by the tactics of the labor party and the propagandi of tlr Political labor League, and tlie em{doyers must see the necessity for everncreased vigilance. Mr. J. C. Thomson was re-elected president, and Messrs. R. Chisholm and 3. W. Henton were reappointed vicepresidents. Messrs. R. Chisholm. T. W. Henton. C. W. Rattraj, am! 3. C, Thomson were elected to the federation executive. """

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