THE REASONS WHY.
The reasons given by the enginedrivers at (the Waihi mines for having broken' away from the Miners' Union are at anyrate honest and logical. The Miners' Union us attached to the Labour Federation, which is of the revolutionary order. The engine-drivers state that they "can no-longer to!er : ate a (branch of the Union whose officials embrace every opportunity of insulting ithe .Empire and its rulers, ridiculing traditional beliefs, scoffing at all religion-, and bleating forth anti-mil-S----tiairiam, /atheiem (and revolutionary socialism' in season and out." In other words,, the engine-dnivws refuge to be attached to that militant body of syndicalists who would precipitate strikes,, hungar and bloodshed irrrespective of the consequences. In this refusal they .will, have the support, not only of ;tbe great bulk cf Labourites throughout the Dominion, but of every right-thinking person in the community.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10641, 21 May 1912, Page 4
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140THE REASONS WHY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10641, 21 May 1912, Page 4
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