THE RED FEDERATIONISTS AT WAIHI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 155, 18 November 1912, Page 8

THE RED FEDERATIONISTS AT WAIHI.

4 To the Editor. Sir—With your permission, I would like to say a few words ""upon this sore industrial boil. I can endorse your leading article bearing upon this troublesome affair. I have been watching this union strife from the first. The Red Federationists say that they are fighting for a principle. The principle that they arc really in want of is the principle of lawful conduct and sense enough not to call other lawful workers ''scabs" and suchlike epithets, simply because, they are not in harmony witli their purposes. The Red Federationists have played the fool, and I consider that all laborites have good reason to be' ashamed of it. Sir, I think that if their game is not up now it ought to be. The manifesto signed by three of their leaders makes very sorry reading, and I feel. sure that you had rather it had not been sent to you. I think the fittest place for such-like rubbish is the fire. Labor unions are just ill their congenial element when they are passing resolutions for publication] and thereby get a cheap advertisement for themselves. It would be well for this Dolninion if all journalists would exercise strict censorship over what labor union men may want publishing. The publication of their senseles articles and tlieir bounce and brag is a most potent way of promoting industrial strife. The good old Book says that "the way of transgressors is hard." The way of the Red Federationist is hard, too, a hardness of his owii making.—l am, etc., JAMES FORTUNE.