IS A LABOR CRISIS COMING?
UNIONIST'S OPINION.
Wanganui, January 13. Speaking at a social tendered 'to Mr. W. A. Veitch, M.P., by the local Labor party last night, Mr. W. Lee Martin, a well known local unionist, referring to the persistent rumors of a great impending strike, warned workers of the danger of attempting to redress their grievances by strikes, instead of bv legislation. He regretted to say that 'he had reason to believe that we were on the eve of a serious industrial crisis in this country, and he feared that th* near future would show that some of the men who had been entrusted with responsibilities were not men who should be given them. He did not think that the right to strike should be taken away, but, all the same, he did not believe in strikes unless every other possible remedy had been exhausted, and they should only be regarded as the very last resource. Strikes would merely be forerunners of evil, and doom the Labor party, and he hoped that the party would travel on legislative lines, rather than on strikes, for it was by legislation that i\ could achieve the best results.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 16 January 1912, Page 4
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197IS A LABOR CRISIS COMING? Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 16 January 1912, Page 4
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