THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1912. THE CLOVEN HOOF.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10638, 17 May 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1912. THE CLOVEN HOOF.

The ci'lbven (hoof of .syndicali'srrt, which is a .most vicious rorni of labour tyranny, iis clearly evident in the Waihi dispute. The Labour Federation seeks to federate, or is'yndicalise,' "every "bradieh .o'f industry, Act that if a dispute occurs in one Jbr'aueli, every other ibr-anah anay be icomiperied to "down, folds" in sympathy. 'By this means it is sought iio cicorce employers, so t'h;.<t< every demand nJade, reasonable >or otherwise, imay bo en-forced at the point hi the 'bayonet. It wi'l be argued blind the iiuming industry is separate and An. itself, ai.U jpieirrnifs of no divisions.. l'he same thing may 'b» said of the -biMlding trade, or die (printing trade, or any a?ker tiraUe. And; yet we find in each xJi those separate and distinct Unions. In the Government Printing •Office, 'i?ur iiiaflanc©, .there are n'o fciv*er than fou; distinct Unions represicii--I'ted. How lab&urd it would be if the wlho'le .of the .typographical, machinists and engineering staffs in, the printing offices <of -iNew Zealand coukl •be .cai'ied out Ibeoa.use it boo'kbhicL-r in the Government iPrinting Office at Wellington diaid' ibet<ome what is l termed % "scalb"! And yet this is exactly the proposition w"4idoli the Miners' 'Federation (which realliy means the I ■Federation 'of Labour) iseeks to enforce. Haw imudh 'suffering by the (ininGCemfc .the adoption, of such a prin- | icip'e would impljj, one can ihairdly im- I •ag'ine. It 'has stated that the •whole of the miners of the I>omi.r.iioii "are in- .sympathy with the attitude of t'ho workers at Waihi who have colled 'a strike. Natnra.l>!y they are. And for n'hy ? Because they are pledged . "to t'ho principle of (Syndicalism. But it behoves those isane and reasonable »vorkers wlho prefer evolution to revolution ,td resant this wicked attempt at 'idoert'ion.- The WaShi movement lis designed to destroy tihe Arbitration Adt„ and to substitute for it syndicalism pure and 'simple. The destruction of an Act winch, has proved itself cumbrous, top-sided and inregret. But the replacing'of it with regret. But tile ipi'acing of It with

tfhe revotatiilonary. .methods proposed by »thb Miners' Federation -would be a so palpably opposed to the linter■ests of the workers as to call forth the severest condemnation. It is to 'be Imped that every Labour Union elf 't'lfe Dcminion. will .mark its disapproval of the actioni of it-he Miners' Federation i.'n this matter.