ARCHBISHOP ON STRIKES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 April 1913, Page 4

ARCHBISHOP ON STRIKES.

"We must put down by our influence artificial strikes and strikes with violence," said Archbishop Kelly in an address in Sydney last week. They wanted uio strikes got up by agitators. Even' when a strike was necessary they did not want to have any violence. If they were to gain, it should be by constitutional means. This was the law of God. If force was to be used, it must be that of lawful authority. Priests did not know of parties to which anen were handcuffed and fettered, and with which they must go, but they had to join some party and go with it. He used the illustration of a ship, in which captain, officers, and crew had an interest, and the more money earned the better for all) concerned. He applied the illustration to industrial concerns. If the owners, managers, and miners had: a co-operative interest in the mines more money might be earned. What was wanted was the inculcation of Christian principles. The Archbishop deprecated the view that might was right, and that workers should demand increases because they were able to enforce-their demands. Let them by all mean® claim their own interests, hut without injury to the body public.