Dying or Dead

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 20 February 1914, Page 5

Dying or Dead

ARBITRATION NEITHER CURES NOR PREVENTS STRIKES. A SYDXEW NEWSPAPER'S OPINION, By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, February HI. The llerald, referring to Mr. Ilolman's speech at Wellington on Tuesday, said the Premier must not be taken too seriously when away from the corrective inllueuce of the hard facts of the tense situation. From the nature of his utterances one would imagine the present industrial trouble was an acci dental iiilerruplion of the quiet flow of the river of peace, a mere chip Hung on the smooth current to indicate its speed and direction. It may be the invigorating- result of a sea voyage or possibly the distance from the scene of j turmoil that moved kim to those extia- ; ordinary and self - contradictory remarks. lie will find quite enough to do to secure loyalty to the principle of arbitration in the near future, for evidence is rapidly accumulating that great numbers of labor supporters have made up their minds that arbitration >s no good to tliem. The Telegraph, after some caustic comments on Mr. Holman's optimism with regard to arbitration, adds: "As a matter of fact, nothing has been more completely demonstrated a failure than arbitration as a preventative or cure for strikes, and throughout Australia confidence iu it is such that, instead of increasing, it is either dying or dead."