FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10574, 4 March 1912, Page 4

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

At the conference of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants last week, Mr Veitoh, M.P., made a few p&rtinent remarks about the inutility of strikes. He pointed out that it cost the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants £ISOO to get what was generally recognised as bar© justice for a few of their men who had been involved in the big strike which took place in. 1890. Bearing that in mind, lie asked what it would cost to secure the superannuation benefits to which they were now entitled if all went out on strike? He pointed out that a very hig .strike, and a well organised strike, had ended disastrously in Australia. While agreeing with Professor Mills' proposals for unity, in which provision is made for a strike under certain circumstances, Mr Yeitch did not think that railway men could conscientiously throw their weight into a movement which might involve them in a strike, because they must always consider the benefits derivable from the superannuation fiuid, which a strike would deprive them of. He urged them to join and stick to their organisation, and to so constitute and conduct it -that a strike could not be forced upon them.