THE LABOUR FEDERATION.
Sir--In your issuo of tl'-is morning vou refer to a new Miners' Union iWa.ihi, registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration" Act. which, to your mind, sounds the death knell of the Federation of Labour. Now. Sir. a.s the up* Union is ono hundred stro-no- according to your own figures, and "the Federating is 13,000, and sympathisers of a like number, and the strike fund un to date is £15,887 9s sd. and still rolling in. the deatli knell of which you write is too funny. In fact, it makes ono who is in the "know" laugh.. Tf you had said that tho sending of the police to Waihi was the death knock of the 'Massey Government. 05 per rout of. workers in tliis country would have sarg "So say all of "«" to the tune of '' A life, for a life.." Industrial «:lidnvity, intelligently directed, will ivr anv and ■every time prove all-powerful.—l am, etc., ROD McIUE. Masterton, September 20tli. (Yes, if intelligently directed. But is it?— Ed. Age.) ■
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 30 September 1912, Page 6
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171THE LABOUR FEDERATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 30 September 1912, Page 6
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